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~inquiry

It's more like simple math rooted in the notion that we all have only so much blogging time in the day after subtracting out necessities like bodily maintenance, earning a living, getting being places, etc.

So let's over-simplify and say that leaves everyone worth communicating with (from a given person's point of view, not in some objective sense) two hours per day to interact with N number of blogs. And, of course, not everyone is visiting the exact same blogs, so it's not like if person A and person B both land on some (N+1)th blog that they'll be missing out on each other. But if they wind up landing different (N+1)th blogs, it takes them time to interact with those blogs, but since it's not the same blog, that time spent at their individual (N+1)th blogs necessarily reduces how much time they have to be aware of and/or interact with each others entries at the blogs they *do* have in common.

I actually have somewhere between 30-60 minutes per day for this, and I really enjoy many of the members. But if one of my favorite members runs off to, say, a raspberry pi blog you create, and I *don't*, that means they're probably going to be spending less time here. And since I won't be there (at your blog, 'cuz I just plain don't have the time), I won't be making up that time with them at your blog... so overall, I'm missing out on someone really enjoy interacting with because we're not longer *as much* in the same blog places.

Something like that.

What drives this thinking in me is there were a few bloggers in Midnight Pub that I *really really really* enjoyed in my early days of being here, and they sudden just plain disappeared.

I can't say for sure it's because they found other blogs they'd rather spend their preciously little blogging time at, or they died, found religion, got tired of my inane ramblings, etc. But the net effect on me was my overall blogging experience declined.

Could I search other blogs for them, or others who wrote like them and/or on topics they elaborated so well? I suppose. And I might find others that fill said void.

But the key word, there, is 'might'. And that search takes time - time away from just plain enjoying what was once a given for me, here.

Does that make sense?

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~impulse wrote (thread):

Yeah, I think it does. People have limited blogging time, and it's harder to keep up with others when they go off and make their own blogs, and spend less time here in the pub.

Admittedly, when I first discovered Gemini, I was excited that I finally found a world small enough that I could set up a place for myself, and people would actually, maybe, possibly stumble upon it and read my insane, sleep deprivation fueled ramblings.

But I think I see now why the pub exists. It isn't just a basic forum, it's a place where like-minded people can all blog and easily locate each other's blogs. The pub even has a page creator, it's just like making your own capsule.

I don't know if this was your intent, but you've convinced me to stay, at least for a little longer. I can build my small section of the web here.