Blogs were awful. Lack of actual discussion, just pontification and ultimately you curate your own list of (mainly) like minded blogs. Give me a reddit thread anyday where some rando (whose blog I never would have followed) calls out the original post with differing thoughts/viewpoints. Sites like reddit/twitter broke me away from the trap of blogs by people with great credentials giving/polished public face giving them un-deserved authority over my thinking. Reddit causes me to re-evaluate and change my positions regularly, something that neither blogs nor mainstream media ever managed to do. Twitter makes me actively angry if I read replies, but it has also surfaced many interesting people who are deep thinkers with positions other than mine. But twitter's most powerful revelation is when it shows me I HATE so many of the people whose positions I used to align with, and whose slower more thoughtful blog posts swayed me. When I see their immediate response to something, and it is just awful and ugly and full of hate, not rational thought but just knee jerk reaction, then yeah, no thanks. I don't need a deeper insight into your thoughts. Twitter has weeded out so many ugly people from having influence on me.

Reddit - injects thoughts/opinions I would never have sought out on my own. Twitter - Shows the true face of 'thought leaders',takes away their polished persona and shows me when I have been giving too much credit to horrible people.

> Blogs were awful. Lack of actual discussion

citation needed?

> just pontification and ultimately you curate your own list of (mainly) like minded blogs

is a curated list of fellow "leaders" pontificating on almost everything to blind "followers" helped by an opaque "algorithm" with the ability to block the "heretics" and direct their followers' hate against them, better?

notice the cultist terminology: leader, follower, heretic etc

> Give me a reddit thread anyday where some rando (whose blog I never would have followed) calls out the original post with differing thoughts/viewpoints

I am not advocating for blogs per se, but a reddit thread where "some rando calls out the original post" could have easily have been a thread of comments somewhere else that did not made money for reddit, but for the randos creating the actual content you are interested in

you are criticizing the presentation, but the actual meat (the value) is in the content.

> Sites like reddit/twitter broke me away from the trap of blogs by people with great credentials giving/polished public face giving them un-deserved authority over my thinking

sounds more like a your problem than a blogs problem honestly.

if you are assign authority to someone writing on the internet under fake credentials, it's not that it's written in a blog the issue IMO.

twitter and reddit (which are vastly different anyway both as kind of platform and as audience) made the problem worse, if anything.

> Reddit causes me to re-evaluate and change my positions regularly

again, good for you. but there's no inner quality of reddit that makes it especially good at that. I changed my mind a lot of times by reading books and when reddit was born I was already almost 30, so...

> Twitter makes me actively angry if I read replies, but it has also surfaced many interesting people who are deep thinkers with positions other than mine

replace the word Twitter with "internet" or "school" or "traveling or "hip-hop battles" and you'll find billions of people who had the same realization.

anyway, nothing that a good old BBS couldn't already do 40 years ago. It's where I discovered and then downloaded the Wolfenstein 3D demo.

To wrap it up: the question was "where could I follow X and Y if Twitter dies"?

The answer is: don't worry, Twitter eventually dying won't be an issue, they'll tell you where to follow them cause their status depends on it. You might as well ask them some money to follow them, they'll probably give it to you.