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Do you mean an alternate place to put your blogs/stories? There are plenty. There is Github and Gitlab or if you want something not owned by Microsoft or Gitl
by LinuxBender 6y ago
Do you mean an alternate place to put your blogs/stories? There are plenty. There is Github and Gitlab or if you want something not owned by Microsoft or Gitlab, an alternate could be NeoCities [1]. Neocities is open source so you can even run it yourself if you don't want to use their domains. Venturing into the more manual setup are cheap VPS providers and frameworks for managing blogs. If you are specifically looking for a community, consider setting up a Discord server based on your topics of interest and invite people to it from your blog.
[1] - https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/
- deadvoid 6y agoNo, I mean killer. An obvious, popular choice for replacing whatever Medium offered.
- snypher 6y agoIt might be telling that no competition has really emerged as it's not clear to me what it was that Medium offered to make it obvious/popular at all? Edit: Substack is an idea but seems to be the Patreon of writing.
- deadvoid 6y agoThat is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.
- browningstreet 6y agoI think Medium was the alternative to posting to Facebook, LinkedIn and Wordpress.com. In that sense, it doesn't need a killer, as it's the one dying under its attempts to kill.
- deadvoid 6y agoIs it dying? I genuinely don't know.
- browningstreet 6y agoThe frequent re-positioning might suggest a lack of footing.
- ericb 6y agoI haven't used it, but I think the appeal was that by posting to a place with a pre-existing audience, you could catch traffic from an initial audience that you otherwise would not have.