Personal blog. Thoughts on life, technology, some politics and whatever I think.
Photo by Mark Basarab on Unsplash. Cheesy, I know, but that’s how I feel right now…
For a few years now, I have been using both Ulysses and Bear for different functions. General note-taking was done in Bear, and my blogging and gaming was done in Ulysses. There was a little overlap, with interesting articles and ideas being saved in Bear and not in Ulysses. I like both apps a great deal, and like features from each in different ways.
Photo by Michael Dziedzic, Upsplash.
It seems a cliche to hear that the Internet is dead now, but I have come to realize that statement really is true. What we knew as the Internet has been taken over by the corporations and tech giants.
I’ve tried others, and I keep coming back to the simplicity of Apple apps.
It’s not as simple as you might think.
One of the attractions to Substack is that it is free. Another is a ready-made audience and community. But the rise of extremism and the investment by Marc Andreessen and Company has led me to rethink being there.
I cancelled all my social media accounts due to privacy concerns, and have never been happier.
During Lent this past year, I really thought hard about what I wanted to give up. What I finally decided on was clutter. It was pretty damn life changing.
I have been writing for a handful of different blogs on my own for about 10 years now, but I am looking for a place to write that I can settle on—a place to call home.
Right now, I've been moving off of a self-hosted site on Bluehost, and got two sites hosted on Ghost and two on Substack. Ghost has raised their entry tier from $108/year to $180/year without notice, and it seems Substack is getting taken over by the far right. That is why I started looking for another platform.
We'll see how write.as works out. One thing it does not have is the ability to host static pages—I need that for at least one of my blogs. But the others may work out here, especially if I can add additional blogs for a small fee.
I am also intrigued by this Fediverse and social web thing. We'll see how that works out, too—I cancelled all my social media accounts for a reason. But... we'll see.
Anyway, more to come.
Marc
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