Every time I see blogging related posts I turn into that old person that remembers back in MY day XD

We were all "slice of life" bloggers back in the day, that was normal. The marketing bullshit (present yourself as "an expert in your niche") came like 5 or 10 years later maybe (could have been earlier or later, that was about when I noticed it) and everything became incredibly bland and boring and samey, especially those pathetic losers that "spin"/copypaste other people's posts hoping to benefit (and in some cases pretending that they're "curating"/"discovering" things). Massive problem as it made the people that actually knew what they were talking about who wrote useful posts a lot harder to find.

_{and it's even worse now because forums and similar are falling out of favour and people are getting directed to instant messaging services for help/tech support and then people are wondering why everyone keeps asking the exact same stupid questions over and over and over again instead of researching/looking it up (okay some of them are probably extremely lazy and want the instant gratification without "wasting" their time doing research) first and apparently completely incapable of getting through their thick skulls that there's nothing to look up because nobody is writing about it therefore there's nothing to index therefore nothing to find}

If my favorite game youtuber started posting art timelapse, I'd be less receptive about it because I subscribed for game reviews and not something else

Audience is 100% the problem here, this is why I don't have one XD But I guess intent/reasons behind blogging (or anything else for that matter) makes all the difference between feeling like you're screaming into the void or not.

I know I'm only punished for visibility since I'm not posting on a community which makes me invisible to most users as posting in a Hive community is the meta

From some experience with other communities/sites that only helps if you're posting into a popular community, and then only so much as if the community is really popular you're likely to get swamped out anyway. I should probably nose around to see if there's any more active ones in the same vein but most of the communities I'm following right now are so niche they're dead or not that active (or just straight up dead or not that active) so it's much of a muchness whether I post in there or just to my blog,

Go ego-surfing and see what ChatGPT thinks about your blog.

I don't talk to ChatGPT. I haven't done a vanity search for a while, from memory the last time I looked up my nym (whenever that was) the search engine was quite adamant that I must have meant Rihanna XD