I wouldn’t bother. I ran a successful-ish non computing hobby related related blog for about 7 years and all it really did was add noise, obligation and expecta

I wouldn’t bother. I ran a successful-ish non computing hobby related related blog for about 7 years and all it really did was add noise, obligation and expectation to my life. It added very little if any value. On some days it was depressing. It all ended in a 9 month long technical argument with a troll. It ruined the hobby for me. I deleted the blog, sold all my equipment and never looked at it again. I keep in contact with a couple of long term friends still but is it. What I find far more interesting is talking to random people in the real world and finding overlapping interests. I’ve been an amateur photographer for 30 years and occasionally lug around an old film SLR. This has led to more meaningful and mutual communications, friendships and relationships than anything blog related. You made a great point about creating things in the dark. I create a lot of things but I don’t do it to show people. I do it because I like doing it. I believe that’s a better and more ethical motivation than to sell attention. Edit: worth pointing out that some personalities aren’t suited to the attention selling side of it. My ex wife manufactured an entire reality on early social media which came collapsing down upon her and finished our relationship. It makes me question what I read and the difference between the perception and the reality and the accuracy of bloggers. Thus it devalues credibility. I suspect that it has risks associated with it too including over sharing and privacy. As a side note HN (and Reddit) comments on a blog post are far more valuable than the blog post itself.