Blogging platforms that make it easier to publish and to be discoverable contribute to the problem just by making it easier to publish and to be discoverable. When writing a blog meant writing your own HTML, or at least installing and configuring some blogging software, and you’d have to write content other people linked to get a good page rank for your website, that served as a filter for low-quality content.

I’m not advocating to abolish blogging platforms, but they’ve been a double-edged sword in that way.