You log in on Monday to make a post about your weekend. It's filled with candid snaps of all the fun things you did, and random text tidbits for context. You hit publish. People who follow your feed tap in, read, comment, and otherwise engage. There is little-to-no pressure. Life is good.
Now? In 2021? On Blue Ivy's internet? The pressure is ON. Snaps are no longer candid. They are hi-res editorial images. Text tidbits are long-form copy blocks. All the fun and free features that used to be included with your blog? Those are gone. Unless you pay a monthly fee. Lots of people are now using squarespace or wordpress or substack, because apparently newsletters are the new blogs.
Blogspot is a wasteland of idle posters and ME.
So when I got an email that my free RSS email feed was going away, did I get annoyed? Yes. But we're coming off the catastrophe of a year that was 2020, and I had plenty of other things going on. So I ignored it... until today.
I'm trying out a new follow by email service, so if you're a reader who previously followed via email updates, you'll have to re-opt in to tap in again. Sorry for the hassle. Sorry I haven't been posting more often. Thank you for caring enough to follow in the first place.
That's all.
There's literally a hand full of bloggers I follow via email subscription.. why? because It's way more filling to type in the web page and read. The new blogger is now an instagram post - that's for another time. Glad you're well. Oh, let me sign up.
ReplyDeletei hate the insta-age of blogging. truly, truly hate it. it's not searchable, half the links i'm looking for are hidden behind a liketoknowit page, and comments get buried. bring back the proper blog!!!
DeleteAh, blogspot 2013. A lifetime ago! Admittedly, I still use Bloglovin' to keep up with blogs, even though I'm starting to wonder how reliable it is... And if it's still being updated in these forever-changing internet times. Time will definitely tell whether I join a follow by email service! (I hope you're well!)
ReplyDeleteit really does feel like it was so long ago. i miss those days, but also, it's nice having less fluff in the blogosphere. people who still blog care about it in a different way, and it's apparent from the updates they share. thanks for stopping by, Sian!!
DeleteIve noticed this too and I also think is why I haven't been blogging much myself in the past year or so. Everything has changed so much where the fun of "documenting" just isn't fun anymore. For some reason I can't log into bloglovin and keep up with the blogs that do still post and honestly I think someone hacked it and no one has gotten back to me yet about it so I've been looking into this whole email thing... not a fan but I guess I have to eventually 🙄
ReplyDeleteLordy, this resonates a little too hard. As much as I totally understand why lots of folks are going the insta/newsletter route with paid clicks or the option to pay for more exclusive newsletter access, I just don't have capacity to do more than post the bare amount I rarely do lol. This new commercialized style of blogging also makes it really hard to find new bloggers. It's the reason I've found myself gravitating to vloggers - because Youtube is so easily searchable. I only know about 4 blogs websites by heart at this point (yours included) and they are the only ones I check in with on the regular.
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