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> If you write a blog post, how do people become aware of the blog post? There are other solutions to the readership problem with independent blogs. I am tryin
by cebert 3y ago
> If you write a blog post, how do people become aware of the blog post?
There are other solutions to the readership problem with independent blogs. I am trying to start blogging this year and am using Ghost as the CMS. I pay for the hosted solution that is $11/mo and provides readers the ability to subscribe for email updates. This isn’t a unique feature to Ghost, several other platforms support this too. I can say Ghost makes supporting this trivial.
- lapcat 3y agoI've never heard of Ghost, so I'm not sure how much that would help with readership. In any case, external hosts undermine the goal of having the blog be a permanent record. External hosts are fleeting. They can shut down. Even Twitter itself could shut down due to massively declining ad revenue. And even though Twitter is still operating now (well, technically, "Twitter" did stop operating and was replaced with "X"), the site has started to put content behind a login wall that was previously public. Self-hosting is the only way to keep control of your content.