pretending blogging in the way it used to be will continue
It will.
- Medium.com had 1 million paid subscribers in 2024
- Substack had 5 million paid subscriptions in March 2025
It's only about people who pay for using Medium and Substack as blogging platforms, there are much more who use them for free.
Hive has all the infrastructure to become a blockchain Medium.Com - PeakD and Ecency are amazing. The other question, we aren't Medium or Substack in any way from the point of community and content. We could change it.
Hive can be all those and way more, but doesn't mean we have to "give up blogging" because that "clearly doesn't work" like some say when we've barely had a chance to give it a try with a proper userbase.
The few times we've gotten a big influx of users was just because the coin pumped cause some korean exchanges did their thing, naturally that mainly brought people here who just wanted to extract as much as they could and only a small % remained cause they learned more about it when the short-lived pumps stopped.
Some niche hanger oner’s maybe.
But like the way it’s nostalgic to read a physical newspaper.
I blog and will continue, but we are a dying breed. Our kids, kids will say ‘blogging 🧐’
And I will say from my dinosaur rocking chair
‘Back in my day we wrote words on a screen for others to read and comment on’
There will still be bloggers like there are still people currently watching movies on blue ray
It was the same at all times - for example, many people used to blog in the 19th century too - wrote diaries, articles, books. However, most people preferred spending time drinking and talking. TikTok always existed - bars, pubs, and city squares with wandering performers, beggars, salesmen, brawlers, gossips, and so on. And kids - even from educated families - always preferred watching lepers and jugglers at the city square to writing. And, no, the circus never replaced writing.
YouTube talking-head videos - it’s just the same thing - visualized writing. In several years, we’ll hopefully have a button “visualize the article” on Hive, and you’ll be able to watch smiling Hive bloggers, looking like in real life, reading their blog posts.
As for TikTok, it might eventually turn into a pure AI stream, serving as both an antidepressant and a substitute for communication, personal life, and adventure for poorly educated people - the booze of the age of robots.