I feel like North Carolina is somehow responsible for this.
Remember blogs? I barely do
I remember when facebook was new there was a Julia Roberts movie about a lady who made a blog about cooking every recipe in a cookbook and the vibe at the time was “you can get famous too if you just blog well enough!”
Blogs were everywhere. Now they don’t even show up in search results unless they’re recipe blogs with a life story before the ingredients.
Put “cooked.wiki/“ before the url on the recipe with the life story. You’re welcome.
Hah, yep. I use justtherecipe, but thanks, I’ll take another useful tool. I also use Umami, a firefox plugin on desktop.
How do I start a blog in the modern day.
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it’s run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go “certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this.”
I’ve yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.
A bunch of markdown files, pandoc, sed, a server (
php -S). That’s all you need.
Alternatively, asciidoctor to replace markdown, pandoc and sed.If you want to go fancy, please use a static site generator.
A lot of people use substack
No thanks, I don’t want to monetize, nor support its owners.
Static site generator then host it on a vape
So what would be your recommendation instead?
Traditional way is to just use a WordPress account, and then move onto a paid hosting service of you decide you like keeping up with your blog. No point in paying for something you don’t use. Their ceo was a dick with open source stuff, but the website itself is still solid enough to be used to check if its a hobby you want to actually keep up with.
If you want to spend just as much time managing the blog as you do actually sharing things, a raspberry pi, Hugo, nginx, and a lot of time are also an option.
I personally use Porkbun for the .com and hostinger for the backend, and it’s been great for the past couple years to host my own wordpress setup.
But actually, I think that makes me oldschool. The new kids are using neocities.
I’ve only recently even heard of substack as some sort of social media platform. I’m almost afraid to ask, but what’s wrong with its owners?
@warbond @ZILtoid1991 nazis. Or at least very happy to platform nazis.
The times do change…:
added “substack”, was surprised how relatively unused it is
Never forget what they took from us
porn?
And only LiveJournal is untouched by time
Deviantart and xHamster are contenders.
We started to talk about tweets instead
Surprisingly, Tweet never went that high.
Twitter might have, but I didn’t bother.
yellow is hard to see on my monitor. also i thought the legend said yellow was regret for a second and waas wondering where the spike was on the right
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Have you ever, like, microblogged the fediverse, man? It’ll change your life, man!
When I moved from Twitter to Mastodon, I was, like, awww, they still call it microblogging over here, these are my people!
Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always ‘repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs’.
The XKCD of decades past.
