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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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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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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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. with his blog overreacted.io
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We're introducing themes soon which will drop the expertise/cost needed to get started even further.
gatsbyjs.org/blog/2019-01-3
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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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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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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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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?
IPFS doesn’t use crypto per se. Has keys as identities and content is a hash.
Also: RSS and all other specs built on URIs. Realized we have to build entirely new specs.
I’m tracking the space and thinking of building a first app.
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