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> It really is a depressing, wasteful cycle. I do agree with this, but I believe we can make it at least not-as-bad. I recently started a new blog & evaluated
by wepple 9y ago
> It really is a depressing, wasteful cycle.
I do agree with this, but I believe we can make it at least not-as-bad.
I recently started a new blog & evaluated a load of options, Medium was one. I quickly decided it had become a cesspool of attention engineering and social widgets, and ultimately settled on self-hosting, with no banner adds or social rubbish.
Can the average public do this? I’d argue it’s not trivial nor inexpensive currently, but maybe that’s worth fixing? Encourage people to move off centralized platforms for sharing content, and maintain control.
- scrollaway 9y agoSince we're talking about blogging platforms I might as well plug Ghost: https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/ I recently moved my company's blog to it. This is an open source, self-hostable markdown blog engine with an excellent featureset and some great default themes, and a paid hosted plan. Official Ghost blog: https://blog.ghost.org https://blog.ghost.org My company's blog: https://articles.hsreplay.net https://articles.hsreplay.net