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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Feb 2019
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      Another data point: I was active on Quora for a couple of years, and quit right when it was shifting gears from pioneer/settler to townie. Basically, I have a writing-centric life *only* because Wordpress was at the right stage of evolution when I got the itch.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Feb 2019
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      It was indie enough for me (unlike typepad or blogger), within my technical ability (unlike the old pre-blogging ezine era with its janky cgi-bin Perl scripts or the new cloud era with its self-checkout complexity)

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Feb 2019
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      What does this mean? Unless someone comes up with tools that allow *new* bloggers to *cheaply* and with *low skill* run highly indie operations rather than platform sharecropping, the blogging frontier has closed. I give this a 5% chance of happening.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Feb 2019
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      The technical+cost barrier to entry is just too high and the platform options just too cheap/convenient. Those who got into Wordpress early enough or can do a higher-cost start now, will enter an end-game phase.

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    5. Kyle Mathews‏ @kylemathews 4 Feb 2019
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      very interesting! 100% agree that PHP is cobol of web and CMSs are "dissolving" into the cloud (great metaphor that I'm going to steal) I don't know how wide-spread this will get but there's strong resurgence of interest in independent blogs in tech communities as Medium dies.

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    6. Kyle Mathews‏ @kylemathews 4 Feb 2019
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      Medium was always a sub-par experience for tech blogging as it doesn't have easy way to add code. It's still fairly technical to get a Gatsby blog going but a number of tech folks are jumping in e.g. @dan_abramov with his blog https://overreacted.io/ 

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    7. Kyle Mathews‏ @kylemathews 4 Feb 2019
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      We're introducing themes soon which will drop the expertise/cost needed to get started even further.https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2019-01-31-why-themes/ …

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    8. Boris Mann‏ @bmann 4 Feb 2019
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      you would be better to focus on ForestryIO style editing and easier tool chain. Step 1 of grokking Gatsby is understanding React (aka be a developer). Real devs hate Liquid - but it was designed for designers to safely style e-commerce.

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    9. Kyle Mathews‏ @kylemathews 4 Feb 2019
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      Yeah themes aren't enough by themselves. Their goal is to reduce or eliminate need to know react or other parts of our stack. For most people, you'll want to pair a theme with Forest or one of the dozens of CMSs Gatsby integrates with

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      which doesn’t get you to indie blogging. Forestry is great. How do I run my own Forestry locally? Fully integrated into Gatsby. (Not that you have to go in this direction - but that’s the niche WP occupies, a full stack)

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Feb 2019
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      The next thing seen as the soul of “indie writing” may not necessarily be seen as blogging. Perhaps people will write more wiki-like works with weak temporal ordering and stronger linkage

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Feb 2019
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          Hmm. In fact by medium-is-message, there might even be an aesthetic reaction against blogging. Static sites may become preferred medium of antibloggers in some sense. Reverse all the norms of blogging.

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        2. Boris Mann‏ @bmann 4 Feb 2019
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          yep! I have been enjoying my personal wiki farming. IPFS has content addressing at its core, not URIs. This has been breaking my brain. Atomic content where all metadata — including your brand / identity — needs to be included. Domains are identity. Post domain identity???

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          Huh interesting, that takes the idea to a logical extreme. Has any content application built on top of ipfs been launched yet? How do they use crypto features?

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