2023
After reading this article about Digital simplicity I can confirm that personally I have the same feelings about big social networks and crosspost automation. I really like how micro.blog can easily crosspost everywhere, but frankly speaking 2 or 3 big socials are enough for me.
Are you tired of Reddit? Then you can try a Lemmy server.
Just submitted my RSS feed to Feedle
Focusing on content
After talking about self-hosting and introducing my blogging journey let me talk about the platform I’ve used to blog for 4 years till I recently left.
I do not remember how I found Write.as, but I tried it just because I was curious to understand how it worked.
The essential user interface and the markdown editor with no frills attracted my so much that I decided to start blogging with them.
The idea of focusing on content instead of all the rest was so amazing that I blogged there regularly till I recently switched to Micro.blog that is now my preferred blogging platform.
Just finished the first aid training for my company. There are many useful things I learned in order to be “ready” in case of emergencies. I do hope to never use them, but who knows…
I never knew that European eels were endangered. 😞
Voi utilizzate applicazioni particolari per prendere le note?
Io dopo averne trovate diverse sono tornato ad utilizzare delle semplici TO-DO list. ⚡
Alcune mie riflessioni sul self-hosting e del perché non è per tutti. ⚡
It seems Google / YouTube want to stop Invidious. Problem for them is that the project does not belong to anyone… It’s FOSS.
My blogging journey
I’ve recently written about the drawbacks of self-hosting. In that article I talked about it from a generic and technical point of view.
Let’s get more personal now. 😉
Many years ago I was self-hosting Wordpress for my blog, but at some point I realized I was spending more time upgrading, customizing & fixing problems than writing something on it.
This situation was so frustrating that I decided to stop blogging many times because I had a sort of internal conflict. From one side I enjoyed blogging, but at the same time I didn’t have the willing to work on it from the technical side.
I even tried Wordpress.com but it didn’t appealed me at that time.
So I gave up my blogging activity for some time till I found a service that suited my needs.
Which blogging platform drew my attention? Hold on, in the next article I will tell you which service I’m talking about.