I've seen multiple 'death of blogging' ideas come and go since I started in 2007, but Medium might really kill blogging as we know it
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. I'm not against the 'platformization of blogging' per se... it is that I strongly suspect Medium will screw it up badly
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Why? I thought CMS were around for 15 years or so. What changed now?
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below a certain market share, open source self-hosted things like Wordpress will wither and die
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Ok... How is Medium different from Livejournal and similar things that were around for 15 years?
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Unlike LJ type community-strong sites, it's cannibalizing a lot of people who would otherwise be indie bloggers.
why is this bad, isn't it just creative destruction (of sorts)?
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