Two days ago, in my article where I talk about genAI comments and human, messy art, I briefly mentioned a new community-driven aggregator for independent personal blogs called Bubbles.town, with blog posts ranked by votes and freshness and shaped by users. Think Hacker News or Reddit, but exclusively for the indie blogosphere. You sign in with a Fediverse account to vote, and posts bubble up based on community upvotes combined with recency. It has categories like Writing, Tech, Culture, Life, Science, History, Gaming, etc., and recently added a daily "Briefing" that presents top posts in a newspaper-style format. Little did I know that there was discourse and controversy about this project being discussed on the 32-bit Café forum. There was criticism from the outset, my good friend Coyote stating that "[i]f their criteria [for good blog posts] involve Reddit-style popularity contests then I expect we have different priorities." Bubbles.town taking people's blog posts and essentially…
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