Why blog if nobody reads it?

There is a bit of lore behind that blogger, see this discussion for a bit more: 📝 Blogroll: Share your blog posts! - #1162 by xixxii

Basically, it turns out his hobby was less blogging for blogging’s sake than SEO farming for sport, and he found a recipe for getting a lot of traction in alt web circles by publishing these kind of pump-up takes (apparently AI generated in some cases?) about how the indie web is awesome and so are you. A little ironic to gain so much real traction with fake posts about authenticity! But you know, if the message resonates, we have to give it credit even if the take wasn’t coming straight from someone’s soul.

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