Thought I would pipe in about one thing mentioned. "social media is great for promoting blogs" this was a throwaway comment and not the main point of the articl

Thought I would pipe in about one thing mentioned. "social media is great for promoting blogs" this was a throwaway comment and not the main point of the article but just thought peeps might be curious. Cause twitter/social is NOT a great place for promoting a blog. Each social network has their own algorithm for what they show people. At this point, none of them show you 100% of what is posted by the people you follow. This isn't the worst things, but its annoying. the question becomes, what DO they show you? For the most part it's things written IN THE PLATFORM. These social networks want to keep you within the network, not have you end up on some other site. The issue being, because of that incentive to keep you on their site, and a preference for on platform content, your blog post that you share generally wont be shown to very many people. The only real solution to that is federation - reposting the content of the blog on each network. That's what gets you the views. That brings up a whole host of issues. Not disagreeing with the main overall point, I have a personal blog for many of the reasons posted, but I don't want people to think that posting a link to their personal site will get much traction on social media unless they already have an absolutely massive following.