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Comment by rlgth | Hacker News Reader

I no longer read blog posts because they got worse. There are no longer any active quality bloggers like Steve Yegge or Joel Spolsky.

Employee blog posts from Big Tech now push the corporate agenda. Stepping out of line "has consequences", so no one speaks freely any more.

Self employed people are afraid of being crushed by Big Tech if they dissent. The result are blogs that are as interesting as reading the Pravda.

Purely technical blogs got unfocused in presentation, are largely self-promotional and rarely address interesting subjects.

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Agree! That is why I did an Ask HN sometime back:

"Ask HN: Relatively less known but good blogs?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258458 (6 points, 5 comments)

It did not get the number of responses I hoped for. But as a rule I avoid anything coming from mass blogging platforms like medium, substack, devto and similar sites. They may occasionally have good articles but most of the articles from these sites are poor and self-promotional. I would love to find a directory or search engine where I can search for good blogs maintained on independent websites by independent people.

I did another Ask HN now to collect links to some good articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310222

Seems like a great idea for building a product :)

They might even exist but are so much harder to find nowadays that I ended up on the same spot. I haven't read or followed blogs of anyone for the past 10 years at least.

I've definitely migrated back to reading mostly books and long-form articles. I'm even considering, for the first time in my life, on paying for subscriptions of reputable newspapers and cut that off from my internet usage. It's getting too far into overwhelming territory to keep up, maybe it's my age showing making me very tired of the pull-model for consumption of news/content... I want something curated, well written and with interesting points, anything else feels like a waste of time.

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