I miss the old Blogger days, the heyday of blogging culture. That seemed a more human scale to me - sometimes you post, sometimes other people post, but you developed your own community of people who shared, and goofed, and learned together. I remember the days of Ta-Nahesi Coates blog at the Atlantic, before it became unwieldy to manage. I remember my friends having blogs and we all just sharing observations and life moments. And each blog had its own personality, and we could sort of customize. And then, suddenly it seemed, it all went poof ... and it was all Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. And now it's all newsletters again, and yet not as ... fun? Freewheeling? It's all business it seems ... the platforms have made us be little automated content creators in one way or another ... the internet is no longer that place of discovery and joy.
I miss the old Blogger days, the heyday of blogging culture. That seemed a more human scale to me - sometimes you post, sometimes other people post, but you developed your own community of people who shared, and goofed, and learned together. I remember the days of Ta-Nahesi Coates blog at the Atlantic, before it became unwieldy to manage. I remember my friends having blogs and we all just sharing observations and life moments. And each blog had its own personality, and we could sort of customize. And then, suddenly it seemed, it all went poof ... and it was all Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. And now it's all newsletters again, and yet not as ... fun? Freewheeling? It's all business it seems ... the platforms have made us be little automated content creators in one way or another ... the internet is no longer that place of discovery and joy.