Freethought Blogs
Freethought Blogs is an atheist/agnostic blogging community. It was founded by atheists Ed Brayton and PZ Myers.[1][2]
Since 2012, the blogging website has been losing a significant amount of web traffic according to Quantcast which directly measures its web traffic.[3] See also: Decline of internet atheism
Contents
- 1 Freethought Blogs and women
- 2 Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic
- 3 PZ Myers' commentary on the web traffic of AIG's ministry
- 4 Thunderf00t on the impact of Freethought Blogs on social justice
- 5 Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs
- 6 See also
- 7 Notes
- 8 External links
Freethought Blogs and women
See also: Atheism and women and Atheist feminism
Despite the pro-feminism stance of Freethoughblogs, according to the web traffic tracking companies Alexa and Quantcast, the website has had significantly less women visiting the website than men.[4]
The majority of atheists are men (see: Atheism and women).
Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic
See also: Internet atheism
On January 1, 2016, the atheist Michael Nugent wrote:
| “ | PZ’s FreeThought Blogs network eventually imploded last year, with Ophelia Benson leaving after being unjustly labelled a transphobe, and founder Ed Brayton leaving citing the health impact of the drama and stress of running the network. It is now losing traffic and revenue. The departing Ed and Ophelia had accounted for a third of the traffic, and PZ now accounted for 90% of the rest. Another FreeThought blogger, Jason Thibeault, predicted some of the network’s bloggers might now have lean months with zero income.[5] | ” |
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs dramatically declines from June 2019 to September 2019
On June 23, 2019, Freethought Blogs was the 90,953th most popular website in the world according to Alexa, but by September 23, 2019 Freethought Blogs was merely the 170,112th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.
Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019
Alexa is a web traffic tracking company. In 2015 and 2016, Freethought Blogs saw a large decrease in its Alexa ranking.
PZ Myers' commentary on the web traffic of AIG's ministry
In 2011, the atheist and evolutionist PZ Myers said that he had greater blog traffic than the Answers in Genesis website and that the Answers in Genesis (AIG) website had "pathetic" web traffic.[6] As of June 8, 2016, the Answers in Genesis website receives more web traffic than Freethought Blogs.[7]
Thunderf00t on the impact of Freethought Blogs on social justice
See also: Atheism and social justice
In October 2014, the popular YouTube atheist Thunderf00t indicated that the bloggers at Freethoughtblog accidentally put him on their email list and that they spend a considerable amount of time emailing each other engaging in petty matters. In fact, he indicated that they spent more time emailing each other than engaged in actual blogging. He also questioned the impact of the bloggers of Freethought Blogs on social justice.[8] Furthermore, he indicated that their attempt to make him a pariah within the atheist community had virtually no impact.[9]
Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs
See: Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs
See also
Notes
- ↑ About Freethoughtblog
- ↑ Five challenges for atheists and secularists in 2016 by Michael Nugent
- ↑ Freethoughtblogs - Quantcast
- ↑ When Alexa and Quantcast gave publicly available data on the gender of people visiting websites, Freethought Blogs had significantly more men visiting the website according to these two web traffic tracking companies.
- ↑ Five challenges for atheists and secularists in 2016 by Michael Nugent
- ↑ Ken Ham brags about his websites
- ↑ Creationist Ken Ham vs. atheist and evolutionist PZ Myers
- ↑ Atheism+ Stream: How SJWs pushed their way into Atheism
- ↑ Atheism+ Stream: How SJWs pushed their way into Atheism
