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Re:Writing your first blog on Medium – in 5 Simple steps by PaulHoule on Friday May 13, 2022 @10:05AM (#31367778)
I could see how somebody would find setting up a blog to be a hassle and find marketing a blog even more of a hassle.

Still I wouldn't be caught dead on Medium. I just wouldn't want to be seen as being at the same level as the rest of the dreck on Medium... The greatest "Eternal September" story of all time.

Re:Writing your first blog on Medium – in 5 Simple steps by EddieDante on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:22PM (#31372153)
My blog is just plain text files and a RSS feed generated with a shell script. My build system is a makefile. I deploy to nearlyfreespeech.net with rsync, and every few months I throw twenty bucks into my account to cover storage/bandwidth/CPU. I literally push updates to my host by running "make install". That's minimal hassle.

As for marketing my blog: my blog is wall-to-wall pornography, fantasies that I write under a pseudonym instead of trying to act out because I'm happily married and would prefer to remain that way. Everything I wrote there, I wrote one-handed -- and it ought to be read one-handed too. Why would I market it, except perhaps by syndicating posts to literotica.com with a link back to the original?