Federation in it’s current state won’t solve that problem either.
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Schmeckinger@feddit.de 7 months agoBut doesn’t that make it harder to get discovered? Im not into blogs, so I know nothing about tumblr or self hosted blogs.
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Soggy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Back in the Old Days of the internet we used stuff like message boards and “webrings” which was a bunch of sites linking to each other (if you like my stuff, check out my friends!), everything was word-of-mouth. It intersected pretty strongly with real world nerd shit, connecting at conventions or colleges. I don’t think the normie internet could exist like that, it was just hobbyists and hikikomori types.