No, Writing Isn't in Decline, Some of the Large and Centralised Platforms Are
Slop isn't really competition, just a passing fad and pure noise (some call it P.I.S.S., which stands for Plagiarised Information Synthesis System)
A prominent Gemini and Gopher person recently showed, numerically, that blogs had made a measurable comeback in 2025. He demonstrated this using a very large dataset of nearly 30,000 blog posts per year.
Hours ago we raised our brows, seeing that the eminent Cornelius Schumacher insinuated that slop may somehow put an end to the incentive to write (no, slop is waning right now!) and another eminent hacker (programmer) spoke of the demise of LiveJournal (LJ) as if it was a good reason to jump to the burning platforms, social control media (they're in a fast, unstoppable decline). The latter one mentioned Mastodon, which is a trap and a hive of trolls.
Schumacher has attracted only this one comment: "Hi! Yes, please. We must keep writing. We need to, we have to."
He responded to thoughts like these: "My feeling is that it's still worth to put in effort to create genuine, trustworthy, truthful writing. The format, the tools, the channels might change, but the values don't. The challenge will be to figure out how to create a signal which transports these values."
Social control media quips perish within minutes or, at most, hours. Blog posts last a very long time and are easier to discover, digest, cross-reference etc.
Make and eat proper, fresh meals, not "junk food" or "fast food" like TikTok. █
