i’m looking for a place/means/medium for texts that i write. content is essays on topics that i find worthy writing about with hints towars philosophy (i guess).

twenty years ago the right answer to my question would have been a (we-)blog - what’s the current day equivalent for such a venture?

optimally, a solution would neither be based on lock-ins, data collection/aggregation or other shady business and would be freely (e.g. in a web browser, no login/registration required) and easily accessible.

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    Writefreely is a fantastic option. Your posts and profile integrate perfectly with the Fediverse right out of the box, it’s nice to look at and really nice to use. It’s also FOSS. RSS is supported by default. If you want to tinker with it you can add custom CSS and it’s self-hostable. I host my own instance and it’s by far the simplest & easiest federated software I’ve run. An absolute peach - highly recommend!

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    It’s very cheap and easy to do with static HTML files hosted on S3. But of course, that requires using AWS, which means Amazon, which means corporate evil. You would have complete control over it, though. It can also be slow to propagate any changes, so you’ll want to get your pages right before uploading them. You can update them, it just takes a long time to get pushed everywhere. That part is pretty annoying, but it is very inexpensive.

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    Modern equivalent to blogs would probably be vlogs (videos on tiktok or other platforms like that)

    Blogs are still a thing, check out WordPress.org

    Another option is publishing on a place like medium.com

    None of the above are optimal regarding your concerns about data collection, etc.

    To address that, you could just set up your own personal website, if you don’t mind learning how to do it

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        If you implement activitypub somehow it would be great. If you intend on allowing comments I’d love to be able to do it from an existing fedi acct.

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        Regarding the concerns you listed, it’s the option that gives you the most control over content and access to it.

        All the others are a trade off in exchange for them promoting you.

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    https://everything2.com/

    is a text based, massively interlinked website that predates Wikipedia.

    The topics(nodes) range from non-fiction informational to philosophical musings.

    Will need an account to add nodes.

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    Use some static site generator like Hugo and host your files on a Github, S3 or any other static site hosting. For comments you can use disqus or whatever is popular nowadays.