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I've considered it, but I'm not aware of any blogging platforms that respect my privacy and align with my values. It's all corpo-slop that I've seen.
People already accuse me of being AI because LLMs were trained on my posts (and those of others, of course), so anyone with good grammar and use of more than the five basic punctuation marks gets accused... when really, the LLMs are doing it because we taught them, with posts and whatnot they've scraped going back 30 years. So I know a blog will be scraped, too. But at least I can put a face to it, or at least an avatar. Because a blog is largely about the blogger and who the blogger is, matters. Whereas on Lemmy or services like it, it's mostly about the content. No one cares who you or I are; it's our opinions that matter.
So... what platform are you looking at? Because I'm interested in software and privacy. Linux less so, though I'm rooting for it on platforms that run Windows.
You don't need a "platform" if you just want a simple blog. I don't know your values, but you can check mine: https://lnar.dev/blog/blog-setup/
I'm just getting my feet wet really, but I love that setup. The only change since that post is that I use Obsidian for editing (and some minor extension changes). It's a shame Obsidian is not FOSS, but it also doesn't matter as there is no lock-in and easy to switch.
Why rely on someone else’s property?
So long as you have a decent symmetrical Internet connection and your ISP does not block port 443 (https, and ideally also port 80 - plain http - for emergency fallback), you can self-host any kind of website you want.
Stick with a static site generator, and your technical needs for hosting will drop down to practically nothing. You could run your website on almost any kind of a low-power device, including - if you have reflashed it with something like OpenWRT - the gateway router to your home network (although this isn’t something I recommend beyond a “holy shit, it worked!” scope).
There are even people running static websites on computers close to four decades old (512k Macintosh, FTW), although the limiting factor there isn’t the hosting but the computer’s responsiveness in responding to page requests… they aren’t the most spry circuits in operation and are easily overwhelmed.
Honestly, the sky is the limit for what you can do, and you can go as simple or as technologically complex as you desire.
Vocabulary as well. Using a word of more than 3 syllables these days can get you accused of being an LLM.
I was thinking on hosting a static site, renting my own VPS. I always write in markdown, so
pandocwould suffice (even if it were just a starting point...) Since I'd be using markdown, the content is highly transferable (e.g. when I wanted to move onto Publii, Ghost or other engine).In your case, I'd recommend checking https://writefreely.org/
The non-self-hosted indie hacker crowd is big on bearblog.dev these days.
I've been looking at some selfhosted blogging options like Ghost because that seems easier than finding a suitable provider.
And for op, go for it! The more ai and advertising ruins the Internet, the more valuable I find real people just sharing their thoughts without trying to profit from it.
I second ghost. They can be expensive if you have them host it but last I looked, you could self host. Avoid substack like the fucking Fascist supporters they are.