Or, the case against hosted blogging options. More and more I find myself reading articles on blog networks, and by networks I mean Medium. There was a promising short lived moment where smaller, topic-oriented blog networks like Svbtle (amongst others) started appearing, but even those seem to have gone by
We shouldn't wait for Medium
Medium has to create a miracle in the economics of publishing. But the users of Medium just want an easy and elegant blogging system. It doesn't seem like a match, long-term.
Beyond blogging platforms
A blog is a blog is a blog. At least that’s what I used to think. In reality, it isn’t quite that simple. Some people just blog and don’t care about the...
blogs.social — Discover the open web
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Medium vs. Own Blog: What Actually Drives SaaS Traffic
Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?
Micro.blog Surpasses Kickstarter Funding Goal, Set to Launch New Social Network for Independent Microblogs
Developer Manton Reece is on a mission to take back short form content for the open web by providing better tools for independent microblogging. Most short form content today is posted through cent…
Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell
Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.
Off the grid - Official site of Stephen Fry
This shouldn’t be a blog. It really shouldn’t be a blog. But it has to be a blog I think. So here is this blog.
idiot's guide to standard.site - leafy
blogs are back! but why are they different now???
The .blog Bait & Switch
The .blog registry backtracked on its promise to send popular domains to auction.
Micro.blog
Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
How is the emerging post-platforms internet like the early days of blogging? @gruber.foo sat down with @jimray.bsky.team to go long on this question, with a few other digressions along the way. atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-09-11-make-…
Make Your Own Thing - AT Protocol
atproto.comI realized something missing with most ATmosphere blog platforms: #IndieWeb #Webmention support, the successor to pingback. The old pingback was a big factor that helped explode blogging in the late 90s and 00s. Tagging @offprint.app @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @lemma.pub @skypress.blog #Mochott. 🖖🏽
good heavens, she's BLOGGING now?? i've been playing around with migrating to independent, open-source social networks for a while now. the tech is really maturing! but the space is still awkward to discuss. i talk about this issue here, and how it applies across matrix, activitypub, and ATproto.
communicating open social networks to normies
spacegirl.pckt.blog
