I miss blogs
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Anonymous
| I miss DIY and home decor blogs with pictures and descriptions. TikTok and Instagram reels provide teeny tiny snapshots of someone's house decorated and redecorated with free things from Amazon, Walmart, Target OR very expensive items that they then find "dupes" for from those stores, they're created solely for the purpose of making money, not providing information. I miss the days when I could spend time reading through what someone did to make improvements to their house and how they did it, or even things like the process they went through when making choices. I was happy to click on those people's links and give them money because they were providing me with helpful information, too. I know Emily Henderson still does this, but I don't love her site anymore. Are there any other home improvement/design bloggers still out there that aren't just shills for random products Amazon sends them? |
Anonymous
| Have you tried Laurel Bern? |
Anonymous
| Apartment therapy has decades worth of content. Some of the UK brands, like House & Garden, also have so much great content. And Athena Calderone’s eyeswoon |
Anonymous
Oh gosh, I can't stand her, she's like a granny who just discovered the internet for the first time, LOL!! |
Anonymous
| Houzz? |
Anonymous
| Me too, Everyone is now on Substack, and it seems like you have to subscribe and then ... pay? Or you pay for some of their content? It's not really clear. |
Anonymous
| No suggestions but I agree with you |
Anonymous
| Those blogs are all the same marketing |
Anonymous
| agree |
Anonymous
| Adding to the chorus of "agree" -- especially now that we are looking for a new house and will need to be doing a lot of DIY. |
Anonymous
| Wow, I haven't thought about this before but OP is very right. Decor blogs were very fun- pinterest sort of fills that void I guess? |
Anonymous
| I feel the same - and about fashion blogs, too! |
Anonymous
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Enshittification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Or "platform decay" if you're in polite company. |
Anonymous
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The blog space has been completely taken over and ruined by click-baity content farms. If you search on Google, that's all you get.
Now, how do content farms make money? They sell online ads. Who dominates the online ad market? Google. So who makes money when Google steers you to content farms? Why, it's Google. Case solved. |
Anonymous
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Yeah i love free content too.
Time to suck it up and get a subscriprion to Dwell or whatever your style is |