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re: no one has any hobbies now / the 4 types of blog

OP saw it, so hidden from the feed now. They had no contact methods, so I couldn’t send this privately or while hidden from the feed.

Just wanted to give my 2 cents to a post by Yunzi.

For posterity and because it's short, here is the post content:

Did a search on Bear for 5 of my interests. One of which is my other blog. 4 returned nothing.

1 returned a single other blog - which in fairness is pretty good (no not mine). So is the search working, or does BB simply lack blogs on interests.

Bear seems to consist only of 4 blog types.

Personal journaling - "I went somewhere and did something"
Amateur philosophy or self help.
American politics - largely left leaning
Tech blogs - often AI

No one reads anything here and I'm honestly considering just stopping posting.

I check the Discovery feed 2-3 times a day. What I am seeing is there are a lot of different hobbies and interests:

and many, many more I have probably forgotten.

Thanks to the feed, I've learned stuff I probably wouldn't have sought out by myself in other contexts. I give a lot of posts a chance, even if the title is unassuming or of something I am not directly interested in.

The Bear search is indeed not super reliable, and of course the feed is limited by either verification or premium purchase and the ability to hide posts from it, so we'll never see the full extent. Lots has been said about how similar topics reach Trending every time, but for a less curated experience, the Recent Tab is right there.

I think it is a bad attitude to suggest that people do not have hobbies anymore because they are not the ones you care about. It comes off as disrespectful to treat others as a boring hivemind who are all the same; especially when your posts read as 'personal journaling' or 'tech post' as well.

I also don't think the solution is to stop writing the stuff you want to read. If someone else like you comes along, they'll also find these topics missing from Bear, when you could have been there to supply it.

Blogging for 1.5 months is not a long time. It takes a while for people to notice you and to find your tribe.

You also say on your blog

"May also talk about tech, books, news and anything else that comes to mind. Otherwise I'd end up with 12 blogs I posted to about once a year."

It seems like you yourself acknowledge that maybe, your niche interests just don't give enough to regularly write about. Could that maybe be the reason for the lackluster search results? I mean, hey, your niche is "documenting long forgotten history, especially in my home county of Worcestershire. Neolithic to Roman and 1939 onwards history." I wonder what the other four interests are, but if they are similar, I would not be surprise that that can be a bit hard to find on a small platform.

In general, I wonder what you are trying to achieve with the post. Is it shaming everyone for what they are talking about, as revenge for not caring about your interests (or posts) as much as you'd like? Pity upvotes so you'll stay and not leave? It's not a good impression.

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