that, increasingly, the internet is less about people communicating with one another than it is about computers communicating with one another.
I no longer have certainty that any post, or even comment, that I may be responding to was actually written by a human being.
We know that a significant percentage of it is AI sludge, but we don't know exactly how much. Whatever that percentage is, it is increasing.
The Golden Age of Blogdom is dead and buried.
The small blogs, from back in the 00s and 10s, had an authenticity and sense of community which, to me at least, seems very much over with.
My own little journey into the world of the political blogs started with Daily Kos in the early-mid 00s. There was a real sense of community then and a feeling that regular people were taking back the conversation.
Daily Kos, even then, was quite big. My UID # was fifty-five thousand something, but people got to know one another pretty well.
But, hell, that was a long ago, now. It was when still when I favored Democrats.
I then joined Maryscott O'Connor's now defunct My Left Wing, which was considerably more left-leaning than was Daily Kos. If dKos was about promoting Democrats, MLW was more about promoting socialism or the progressive-left, although none of us were formal in our political allegiances.
She even got written up by the Washington Post in a 2006 article titled, The Left, Online and Outraged: Liberal Blogger Finds an Outlet and a Community
MSOC was stuck in the middle. Although I suspect that she is increasingly antizionist, she always avoided the topic and much like Markos Moulitsas recognizes that it's nothing but trouble for the left, in general.
Then I started up this joint in '09 and it did pretty well for awhile through the mid-late 10s, until I joined Facebook a few years ago and neglected this place.
Now, of course, there is almost nobody here and I am just using this as a space for reflection.
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