@mauriciobc

I have setup Ghost in a container on linode before and it ran my blog for a long while. I didn't fully utilize it and I like the idea of simple backup/restore, so I switch to deploying my site as a self-built container image of a hugo static site. That way when I to update my blog, I can just make a Markdown file, put it in my git repo and build/deploy the new container image.

Fediverse integration does sound nice.

@jeremiah_ No idea how they're finding the content, either. But I agree with you. I recall Medium reinventing itself several times, and that's a big red flag.

Also, I'd prefer to write for people, not for algorithms...

I can absolutely put that existing content anywhere, alongside the new content. Which won't be Medium.

(Also, I'm a huge RSS fan -- after all, I was hand-coding my RSS feed as one of the world's first 30 podcasters. We kinda have history!)

whenever i did a blog i used Quarto for most of the pandoc use and then posted there. Sure your needs will need a large server like Netlify or something.

your post has me thinking I should get my hand in the Linux content creation as well

I would love, if I could award authors a humble donation post reading.

Let's say, one button click (and confirm) and 0.10€ goes to the author (minus operational costs). With 10 000 reads, where article brought value to reader, author could earn 1000€ per article if everybody donated.

Or, custom value, i.e. 1€ for article that truly helped me in something.

Or, pick maybe humorous 0.01€ just to reward the effort, signal I like something about it, but not good enough yet.