At some point I suspect the “self-hosted” kind of Wordpress which many think of as “real” blogging — downloading/installing on your own server — will be a historical curiosity option. Like people running 8-bit DOS games in emulators. It is already no longer a serious option.
Yes but you're much more of a townie blogger, in it to build a well-defined niche audience (productivity) efficiently and a real business etc. You're the kind of person Medium is designed for.
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That’s true but I guess I don’t know what you mean by a frontier blogger. I mostly associate old self hosted sites with people who are so established they don’t need to keep up. But they are hardly the frontier
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People who started before twitter and facebook became the primary distribution channels, RSS was still alive, and there was a brief window of opportunity (about 8 years, I got in at tail end in 2007) who wouldn't have gotten in the game at all without that degree of control.
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I made the move over to squarespace, and resigned myself to the townie life. (Mostly fine, apart from the interface around frontend configuration.)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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