"Discipline starts where motivation ends"

This blog post isn't about the old saying about 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. It's about social interaction on the Internet. It started as a way for researchers to share information. The Internet later became a formidable tool for discussing and exchanging views. Not so much anymore. Some claim that social interaction is dead, while others claim that it has just changed. Anyway, I think we can agree that it's less social and more media. I started this website in 2014 when everybody else had moved on to the next level. The mission statement was (and is): "To explore and promote gothic country, southern gothic, gothic americana, american gothic and dark americana and ...whatever." What can I say? The written word is dying or at least in sharp decline. Instead, people invest their time and energy into sharing and liking. Nowadays, even this seems to be too demanding. Let me take an example. A couple a months ago I was invited to a group on Reddit (a social network in decline). It wasn't just any random group. It was a dedicated group for dark americana with 992 members (last time I checked). Great, a group of like-minded enthusiasts, I thought. I should have thought again. Every other week a Youtube video or a Spotify playlist gets posted. The responses are, to put it mildly, limited and restrained. I will give it to the end of the year and if it hasn't changed (not likely), I will delete my account. The internet is overflowing with dead websites and if they, for some reason, are still up - the latest update is from 2017. I have an ambition to post something every week. Since the activity level is low and regrowth in the genre is close to zero, I take the liberty to veer off into other subjects. After all, it's my website for which I pay for and I do as I please. Sometimes, I have to force myself to come up with anything to write. Still, a post is coming every week. Discipline starts where motivation ends.