"link aggregators are a special type of social network that we should value higher" The importance of upvoting
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Blog comments work best when the author has a large following, and they actively engage their community.
I don't think many blogs reach this scale. For a typical blog, it's probably better to have comments on link aggregators (Reddit etc) instead.
A wonderful property of link aggregators is that they don't limit themselves to current affairs.
For example, HN regularly links to content that wasn't published this year (with a label to show the content is older).
It's too easy to largely consume content that's very new.
"RSS solved too many problems to be allowed to live" https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/08/17/the-future-of-the-planet/ Fun, candid discussion of the role of RSS aggregators today.