Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')

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As far as I could read, there seems to be very few individual blogs unlike a developer's or programmer's one. In my country, about 70% of population use Facebook everyday (which have already quite problematic). There are short and long posts from electricians or from a local chef which I and/or many people enjoy reading. But the obvious problem is these posts are behind the walled-garden as they don't have personal websites (am thinking about creating one soon).Although the web seems to be easier for posting knowledgeable essays compare to 2000s, why are there fewer personal websites and some recent human knowledge (opinions ...) are behind wall-garden?It's quite easy for a tech-savvy guy to start running a jamstack in no time. But is that becoming really easy for an accountant or a barista? to share their experience as easy as hitting tweet button or What's on your mind textarea?

cyberdrunk · Accepted Answer

> Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')
Tech is unique in a couple of ways:
1. It's a very young industry, so there are no set ways to do many things yet, which invites people to experiment and then write about it.
2. Unlike many other industries, in tech you can experiment using just your at-home equipment.
3. Older industries arguably expect their practitioners to be more mature, so you're less likely to see a structural engineer writing about his weird ideas on how to build support beams... Whereas in tech if you blog, even if it's BS, it is still welcomed.
4. There's plenty of money in tech and the blog can help you get to the highest paying roles. (whereas in for example architecture it's much more about just seniority and years on the job).

unearth3d · Answer

Depends how much people like to (or need to) reach out. I don't think it's mainly technical. I started late in my profession (land planning / ecology) while most started during uni so grew up with their network so they don't need to develop one - that's part of what I think is going on.
Also I don't see many traditional professionals as wanting to reach out and I find it enjoyable, and remunerative.
I have a wordpress blog (found via bt w3 site) and two twitters so not too walled that helps me reach out and be more findable. Self-hosting would take me too long to read up on as seem to be many options but I suspect most are unfit.

dogma1138 · Answer

I have a feeling that your stats and experience is heavily affected by selection bias.

slightwinder · Answer

Normal people don't care about walled gardes. They use facebook, instagram, youtube and discord to share their content. Writing blogs is mostly old-school for the strange dudes or those with real content.

sciencewolf · Answer

I would imagine most people you know would have a difficult time running a website, even on Wordpress or something remotely technical. I used to work at a large website builder (think Wix, Squarespace, etc.) and it was shocking how many people hired out the drag-and-drop functionality for their sites!

TomMarius · Answer

In my country there is at least 10x political blogs than technical ones. They're using local simplistic blog platforms (usually hosted by news sites) that let you have your own third level domain.

rurban · Answer

They either meet in person or are writing books instead.And they don't know how to blog, and they have no idea that this would be free.