Gregory's ServerNow is probably a good time to say this:
If you're a blogger or artist, don't trust *any* social media as permanent.
No, not even here.
Create a website.
Keep it updated.
Manage the infrastructure.
Take regular backups.
Post links.
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@socketwench The point is the “social” aspect that is not possible with a blog. Your blog is not a place where you know other people, where you know people from another part of the world. The opportunity to know other ideas, to meet people from other countries, different point of view . I think we have to be everywhere, in every social. To be where people are. Not to stay closed in our houses, but to go outside, in the streets, in the squares and to listen what the word has to say. @Gabit @socketwench There are a couple of solutions to tie your blog into the fediverse, and more will come. It's not a great solution *yet*, but we'll get to a point where whether or not it becomes your main entry point at least it can become an additional one. @Gabit @socketwench I remember being a part of the blogosphere in the early 00's -- an online community of blogs of similar topics that spanned blogspot, livejournal, wordpress, and others. Folks commented on each others blogs and formed communities, and often wrote posts responding to each other. Twitter and other social platforms made the communal aspect easier via aggregate, but it's not necessarily a requirement for socializing online.  @whirlingnerdish @Gabit @socketwench search engines first, and social networks next, killed rss feeds and the blogosphere. The point was to move ad revenue away from content creators and to the aggregators, and it worked because they did in a way that made content easier to find and consume. @Gabit @socketwench the other point though is that you always have your website as a place to send people. Even if I'm telling people my handles on whatever social media sites, I'm also telling them that all those links can be found at my website. I've got friends who have a Link Tree set up and that's all fine and dandy, except it still relies on that service being up and available.  @Gabit @socketwench The point of owning a domain isn't to have a social hub, it's to provide continuity as corporate sites rise and fall. @socketwench Better yet, serve static text files with basic HTML markup (maybe using a site generator like Hugo).  @socketwench Right? My blog's older than Google. The biggest search engine when I registered the domain was Altavista. *draws on cigarette* "That's a name I haven't heard in a long time..." @socketwench i would advocate if you start now, to use some of the fediverse blogging project. because, yes "social media" can wither, but in practicity community run open-source tend to live very long. i'm pretty sure we still have IRC servers for example. |
It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
Wordpress and Drupal run on cheap infra, have regular updates, and lot of people know how to help you with updates and customization.
My blog is older than Twitter.