I hear you about social platforms. For any given event, most everyone you follow will say the same thing, only different. That and it’s blurbs of text.
I think you mean Pings as opposed to rings. They’re still a thing with WordPress at least.
It’s hard to find decent website content if you’re a conservative because google has tweaked their algorithm to make sure we don’t show up.
Many of the free website/blog services have gone away.
One thing is SubStack. Good writers and a variety of subjects. One feature is “monetization”. Some people are fully monetized meaning you can’t see squat. Some people partially. Some people free.
Once you follow some people, you get decent suggestions for similar people to follow. Most writers also have their own suggestions. Writers also post to each other in the comments which is similar to pings.
Caveat. If you follow(subscribe) to someone, you have no choice but receive an email for every post they write. Follow 20, and that’s a lot of email. Only way to stop the emails is to unsubscribe.
I solved that by creating a subfolder called substack and creating a rule for my email accounts so that any email with “substack” in it goes there and doesn’t clog up my regular email.
Other than that, podcasts are the new thing.
Interesting. Are there people who will create the set up?