Hi HN,
I've seen a few posts encouraging people to start blogging or collect their TILs in the form of a blog. I find this to be a great idea, but if it's meant to be public, how would you approach the sharing of this information?
I don't love the idea of spamming social media with links just to get people to discover your blog, but maybe that's the best approach.
The other option I guess is to just post and let it be discovered, but would that ever happen organically in today's internet?
From the other end, as a reader, how do you keep track of interesting blogs? Is RSS still being used? Personally I've realized I read blog posts shared on social media or here on HN, which comes back to as a blogger you might have to spam your links to get traffic.
Less tongue-in-cheek: the best blogs I read are those that the author just puts on the web with no expectation of "gaining an audience." They simply write about whatever resonates with them, things they want to share with the world. At the most, they _might_ link to their posts on social media.
Once you start doing SEO tricks, trying to sell people your newsletter, or start peddling an affiliate links program, my opinion is that you've crossed over into "content creator" territory, which is a derogatory slur in my book...