It would be an assortment of contents. Between Linux, software, privacy, etc. guides.
My concern is in regards to AI… I think many are relying more and more on it. Making such content a waste of my time in this perspective.
I might just do it, because of my own motivations. But, I still would need to see arguments addressing my concern either in favour or not. Thanks!
I’ve considered it, but I’m not aware of any blogging platforms that respect my privacy and align with my values. It’s all corpo-slop that I’ve seen.
People already accuse me of being AI because LLMs were trained on my posts (and those of others, of course), so anyone with good grammar and use of more than the five basic punctuation marks gets accused… when really, the LLMs are doing it because we taught them, with posts and whatnot they’ve scraped going back 30 years. So I know a blog will be scraped, too. But at least I can put a face to it, or at least an avatar. Because a blog is largely about the blogger and who the blogger is, matters. Whereas on Lemmy or services like it, it’s mostly about the content. No one cares who you or I are; it’s our opinions that matter.
So… what platform are you looking at? Because I’m interested in software and privacy. Linux less so, though I’m rooting for it on platforms that run Windows.
Vocabulary as well. Using a word of more than 3 syllables these days can get you accused of being an LLM.
The non-self-hosted indie hacker crowd is big on bearblog.dev these days.
I’ve been looking at some selfhosted blogging options like Ghost because that seems easier than finding a suitable provider.
And for op, go for it! The more ai and advertising ruins the Internet, the more valuable I find real people just sharing their thoughts without trying to profit from it.
I second ghost. They can be expensive if you have them host it but last I looked, you could self host. Avoid substack like the fucking Fascist supporters they are.
I was thinking on hosting a static site, renting my own VPS. I always write in markdown, so
pandocwould suffice (even if it were just a starting point…) Since I’d be using markdown, the content is highly transferable (e.g. when I wanted to move onto Publii, Ghost or other engine).In your case, I’d recommend checking https://writefreely.org/