You can start a blog, but if you want anyone who isn’t already a subscriber to see a new post, you need to link to to it from Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Hacke

You can start a blog, but if you want anyone who isn’t already a subscriber to see a new post, you need to link to to it from Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Hacker News, etc. So having a blog doesn’t replace social media. It’s a reason to use all the social media.