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Save the Web by Being Nice

A common complaint amongst the old guard bloggers is that the old web as we knew it is dying. This is false.The old web has actually been dead for many...

The old web has actually been dead for many years; killed by the rise of social media, the lure of video, the corruption of SEO, and the double threat posed by mobile devices being both effectively useless for text content creation and difficult to build pages for that also look good on desktop screens. The second best thing to do is to show your support for pages you enjoy by being nice and making a slight effort. I have been trying to live by this advice for a while now - posting and "boosting" links on Mastodon, and occasionally contacting authors and podcasters directly to let them know that at least one person has enjoyed what they are doing.

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