Blogs were everywhere. Now they don’t even show up in search results unless they’re recipe blogs with a life story before the ingredients.
Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always ‘repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs’.
How do I start a blog in the modern day.
I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it’s run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go “certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this.”
I’ve yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
A lot of people use substack
No thanks, I don’t want to monetize, nor support its owners.
Static site generator then host it on a vape
Traditional way is to just use a WordPress account, and then move onto a paid hosting service of you decide you like keeping up with your blog. No point in paying for something you don’t use. Their ceo was a dick with open source stuff, but the website itself is still solid enough to be used to check if its a hobby you want to actually keep up with.
If you want to spend just as much time managing the blog as you do actually sharing things, a raspberry pi, Hugo, nginx, and a lot of time are also an option.
I personally use Porkbun for the .com and hostinger for the backend, and it’s been great for the past couple years to host my own wordpress setup.
But actually, I think that makes me oldschool. The new kids are using neocities.
I’ve only recently even heard of substack as some sort of social media platform. I’m almost afraid to ask, but what’s wrong with its owners?
@warbond @ZILtoid1991 nazis. Or at least very happy to platform nazis.
So what would be your recommendation instead?
The times do change…:
And only LiveJournal is untouched by time
Deviantart and xHamster are contenders.
Never forget what they took from us
We started to talk about tweets instead
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Have you ever, like, microblogged the fediverse, man? It’ll change your life, man!
When I moved from Twitter to Mastodon, I was, like, awww, they still call it microblogging over here, these are my people!
The XKCD of decades past.
