Hello there
So with the flaws of centralized social media making themselves crystal clear, owning ones own content and means of publication is becoming appealing once again, just like it was in the old days of blogs, where everyone had their own website and linked to each other, rather than everytyhing being siloed in just three or four megasites.
Another positive about the "old" web, was that web pages were relatively lightweight things made of html, css, maybe a handful of images. If Javascript was involved it was kept to a minimum, updating a visitor counter or enabling a comment section. Nowadays even sites that seem relatively simple to the naked eye might be downloading megabytes of framework dependencies that even the developers can't keep track of.
To that end I thought I'd have a go at setting up some kind of blog here, on space that I personally own and pay for, and try to keep it as simple as possible. I hacked together a simple static site generator in C# in a couple of hours. It takes plain text files and does some very basic string replacement to inject them into html files and gets them ready to upload. If my host goes down or I forget to pay the bill or they turn out to be nazis or something, the whole site still lives on my local machine and can be moved wherever.
I should probably add RSS feed generation, and I'm thinking of having it pull in posts from other feeds such as my itch.io page, Mastodon account, and maybe my old Twitter archive that I downloaded before nuking my account, but we'll see.
