# Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected

<https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections>

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## What Jamie wrote

Lovely history and look back on blogging.

> Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform's algorithm, which may not have your interests at heart. Feeding your words to a platform is a vote for its values, whether you like it or not. And they roach-motel you by owning your audience, making you feel that it's a good trade because you get "discovery." (Though I know that chasing popularity is a fool's dream.)
> 
> Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That's unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.
> 
> Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.
> 
> Oh except that it does work as well as those other platforms, if that's what you want, that's the magic.
> 
> Also all the good people are here.

This all warms my heart and I can’t emphasize enough the point of "words build up over time". I treasure my blog (and my newsletter!).

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT310: Weekly Thing 310 / Signals, Research, Playlist](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/310/), Notable

## Same host

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