https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

“Suddenly, instead of building their own system, they were working inside one. A system someone else built.”

“The potato gun girl and gerbil genetics guy found they didn’t want to write updates. It didn’t make sense. Their sites should have remained a table of contents, a reference tool, an odd and slightly musty personal library… the new “posts” format simply didn’t work for what they wanted to do. It felt demanding, and oppressive.”