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.
@dan_abramov with his blog https://overreacted.io/1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
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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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?
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Replying to @vgr @kylemathews
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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We are looking at doing something in the Future of Work space have some ideas. We should talk.
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