do you think social media algorithms favoring people you interact with frequently has had an effect on the ribbonfarm diaspora blogosphere and others like it? e.g. more clumps of collaborators, fewer niche 1:many broadcasters?
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Hmmm hard to say. Most of the effects of me being affiliated with Rf that I’ve observed are on twitter itself. The people who discuss ribbonfarm here and are associated with its readership are, with a few exceptions, not the people who actually write or have written for it
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don't index on Ribbonfarm too much — using it as an example, but like Indie Hackers would do just as well
this may just be a shift in my own life and I'm projecting it though
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I'm not sure because I honestly am not involved in a blogging "scene" and most of the blogs I follow don't even cite each other
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I'm still not sure what you meant by your original question actually. What is it you've noticed in your own spaces?
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I feel like I used to see a lot more "people writing into the void" and now I see more "people writing for / with / based on conversations with internet friends"
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There’s always been two kinds of blogging, the community centric style (livejournal, tumblr, medium) and the freehold style (typepad, blogger, wordpress). Twitter has sort of become a community layer of the former style to the latter, as a bolt-on, since roughly threading/2014.
I’d say until ~2011 or so, ribbonfarm was open web, with comments/email/HN etc being social loci. 2011-14, Facebook was the most important social locus, where activity from meetups and refactor camp landed. 2014-2017 or so, Twitter was core. Now I think it’s messengers/slack.
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Toby’s right about Sarah. Her writing is unusually anchored in Twitter subcultures (UST, ingroup, weird sun, her old carcinisation crowd, a few NRx and adjacent crowds...)
I don’t think my readership has ever had much coherence of that sort. Other contributors have been varied.
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