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Is there a website that offers similar kind of content as YouTube, except in a written format rather than a video one. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by porcelain@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm someone who just much prefers reading to watching YouTube — I like being able to go at my pace.

So I was wondering if anyone here knows of any kind of website or app which has long form written content about interesting topics. Thank you! :)

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[–] TiffyBelle@mastodonapp.uk 4 points 1 year ago

What you're looking for seems to be blogs. Before YouTube made "vlogging" (video blogging) widespread, many people blogged with text. There's still tons of useful/entertaining blogs out there depending on your interests.

There's sites like Medium (https://medium.com) which is a fairly popular centralized service. There's even Fediverse instanced communities based on software like WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/instances). Many just have independent blogs around the web, though.