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What do people use to start a blog nowadays? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by baggachipz@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!

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[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can host your blog on GitHub pages, some technical know-how required. But it's free of charge, and you have complete control over what's hosted, so you can host a plain HTML page if that's what you want.

There are quite a few static site generators which you can use. Jekyll and Hugo are the most popular, and have quite a few themes to pick from.