Let me tell you how running a blog works: You write something, and then a bunch of russian bots come in trying to sell shit on your website. It's boring. I'd much rather interact with people here on the fediverse, occasionally popping out a big effortpost.
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@sj_zero I had one for a while but I disabled comments on it for exactly that reason. I think comment sections are kinda outdated in the age of Reddit / Hacker News / whatever; people can just comment there.
The problem with my blog was that it was specifically about one thing and then I more or less stopped doing that one thing: http://playwithlua.com .
@sj_zero I moderate a forum for an open source project (one of the ZFS versions). It is a continual game of whack-a-mole to weed out the SEO (search engine optimization) spam posts, which now are all AI-generated. Their favorite game is to embed a link in text the size of a period - you can’t see it, but search engine crawlers that look at the source of the page pick it up. I think most of ours comes out of Asia, probably China.
That varies from blog to blog. A lot of Hugo/Hexo/Astro/Zola themes don't have blog support, so that's a good idea...?