One consideration is that if you remove all barriers to entry, your ecosystem might quickly become overrun with bots and spam. If you're interested in a less c

One consideration is that if you remove all barriers to entry, your ecosystem might quickly become overrun with bots and spam. If you're interested in a less commercialized, blogging-oriented niche of the Internet, you might also want to look into Gemini which is a new, simpler internet protocol that is incompatible with HTTP by design, and primarily designed for sharing textual data rather than rich media content. So it's like a modern effort to create a niche in the Internet similar to the Usenet/BBS systems and Web 1.0 era of the past. Browse through a proxy like: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ It's kind of neat in that it results in a small, self-selecting, geeky community with some weird, quirky stuff that you don't see elsewhere on the modern web, for example, discussion of the week about topics like broccoli, or 5 questions of the month among total strangers: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-12-11-broccoli-a-verb-in-need-of-meaning.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/wholesomedonut/gemlog/reply-to-broccoli.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/whole... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroccoli https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroc...