I moved this blog from Medium

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Papyrus.so

> Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so. Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff, isn't that just somebody else's playground <i>not owned by you</i>? Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily. There are a ton of options for hosting a jekyll blog. No disrespect to what you've built with Papyrus, because it does look good, but you've completely missed the point. Isn't this more about taking back personal ownership and control of content than ceding to yet another "platform"? Here's the third paragraph: <i>Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning.</i> Some of us don't want a "Medium alternative": we want ownership and control. Papyrus might be great now but, guaranteed, if it becomes as successful as Medium, I seriously doubt your offering will devolve into a similar mess. Again, with no disrespect to the quality of what you've built, screw yet another company that wants to line its founders' pockets off the back of peoples' content. I wish you well, but I don't believe this is what the author of the post is talking about.

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Write.as

Adding another alternative here: https://write.as/ Free, easy, federated, ostensibly open-source and self-hostable: https://github.com/writefreely.

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Grav

Congratulations. A big win for Internet decentralization! (It's not sarcasm, I'm all for having your own space on the Internet). I invite you to try Grav CMS[0], it's what I use for my personal blog[1]. Grav is a flat-file CMS, it doesn't use RDBMS. It's highly perfomant. I also have CloudFlare in front of it, but it was already faster than your typical WordPress you see elsewhere. Grav also adheres to the latest PHP version, so you don't have to carry along legacy syntax around like other CMSes. Its error pages are comprenhensive and the stack traces are actually readable. I personally think it's the best out there technically speaking, the best of both worlds (Flat-file and at the same time, dynamic instead of compiling the build every new post), the only drawback is that its plugin ecosystem it's still in the early stages, so if you're to create marketing landing pages or similar, you'll still fall short there. [0] https://getgrav.org.

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Bridgy

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DEV.to

Sad indeed. Fortunately, there are several public instances one can join (https://writefreely.org/instances), and again, still self-hostable. Alternatively, there is also: https://bearblog.dev/ https://rwtxt.com/ https://dev.to/ Or of course you can use a static-site generator and host on Neocities or Github Pages, but that's less simple than the above solutions.

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Bear Blog

Sad indeed. Fortunately, there are several public instances one can join (https://writefreely.org/instances), and again, still self-hostable. Alternatively, there is also: https://bearblog.dev/ https://rwtxt.com/ https://dev.to/ Or of course you can use a static-site generator and host on Neocities or Github Pages, but that's less simple than the above solutions.

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