If all you measure is "what is mainstream culture doing" then yes, social media dominates. But there are tons and tons of topics that have active bloggers, tech among them, certainly. A lot of the blogs in my RSS feed get regular updates.

I still read a ton of blogs. Try this for size:

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

I’d make a guess almost 50% of front page posts on HN are to blog posts, so I imagine so.

So I've been recently just skimming through (next post -> next post etc) Kagi Smallweb and it's been a lot fun. Good way to discover new stuff easily. I actually wish they had more content though.

Yeup. I just went through my Feedly, currated my lists, and even started poking at some other RSS readers.

RSS is still alive, and if you're the type of person who doesn't just want the alg telling you what to look at next, then it's still valuable.

There's some many content creators right now, for example, who are specializing in sharing AI knowledge.

Yes! See https://kagi.com/smallweb and https://ooh.directory. So many good blogs!

It's more like Medium, then Substack, have replaced the old Blogger-type services.

I do! And not only that, but I only read them through RSS.

> Does anyone read blogs anymore?

Yes. We call them newsletters now. Podcasts, if they're audio. Many are both.

You read blogs and scroll through social media posts. One is not a substitute for the other. So yes, I and many others still read blogs.

My blog’s stats show that there is a sizable readership.

Considering I also follow a few blogs, there are a silent crowd who reads blogs.

Maybe someone can do a query of URLs posted to HN to see how many are blogs, but...it's a lot of them.

I would I just have no idea how to get everything I want to read in one place. Yeah sure RSS etc.