For me, I used to blog on a shitty platform before (livejournal or lifejournal, not sure; shortly it was very popular long ago). But I was writing back then! Al

For me, I used to blog on a shitty platform before (livejournal or lifejournal, not sure; shortly it was very popular long ago). But I was writing back then! Also I had a blog on Tumblr, was writing for a while, but shorter. Then there was Medium for a while. Now, I don’t write. But I’d like to start my own self-host blog. Possibly a bunch of *.org files compiled to HTML. My takeaway: start self-hosting early, but prioritise writing over not writing. As your posts could be moved to where you want, especially if you back up all that somehow sometimes.