The times do change…:
Never forget what they took from us
porn?
Yes
added “substack”, was surprised how relatively unused it is
Blogs were everywhere. Now they don’t even show up in search results unless they’re recipe blogs with a life story before the ingredients.
Put “cooked.wiki/“ before the url on the recipe with the life story. You’re welcome.
Hah, yep. I use justtherecipe, but thanks, I’ll take another useful tool. I also use Umami, a firefox plugin on desktop.
How do I start a blog in the modern day.
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
I created a blog with Hugo (static site generator) the works off a git repo on gitlab (when the repo’s updated it regenerates the site).
The only problem is that I don’t have anything to say…
A lot of people use substack
No thanks, I don’t want to monetize, nor support its owners.
Static site generator then host it on a vape
I’ve only recently even heard of substack as some sort of social media platform. I’m almost afraid to ask, but what’s wrong with its owners?
So what would be your recommendation instead?
I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it’s run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go “certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this.”
I’ve yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.
The XKCD of decades past.
Remember blogs? I barely do
I remember when facebook was new there was a Julia Roberts movie about a lady who made a blog about cooking every recipe in a cookbook and the vibe at the time was “you can get famous too if you just blog well enough!”
If that movie was made today it would be about a woman who made tiktok or Instagram shorts of making those recipes except it’s those seizure inducing quick edit style videos and she’s wearing something revealing and making eyes at the camera as she weirdly fondles the ingredients
Rollover: Plus the reaction in the Tumblverse is always ‘repeatedly get hit by a dog and fall down the stairs’.
