I predict 2026 will see a mass return to self-hosted blogging (and the Linux desktop, natch).
Why? AI crawlers will kill your server and give no backlinks.
At this point, I'm writing for myself and not for any particular audience, b/c even if I'm discovered, I'd be discovered by AI.
This is my hope as well, but fear of ai scrape is real among folks I have chatted with this about.
Why? AI crawlers will kill your server and give no backlinks.
At this point, I'm writing for myself and not for any particular audience, b/c even if I'm discovered, I'd be discovered by AI.