Mataroa.blog VS diff.blog

I love Mataroa: https://mataroa.blog I jumped from WordPress to Mataroa and I'm also using Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and Obsidian to blog. There are a lot of great things about Mataroa that I love. I've blogged about Mataroa: https://pivic.blog/blog/mataroa/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I use https://mataroa.blog/ after it was posted on HN by one of it's creators. Been happy with it for the past 2 years so far. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Same for me, too. I honestly love https://mataroa.blog it ended my paralysis for searching a blog platform, and every page is bog standard HTML. It accepts Markdown, plus it has its own anonymous analytics, so it's nice. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

New to all this self-hosted stuff. I'd like to self-host my blogging site, and I'm in love with mataroa. Source: 5 months ago

Https://blog.bayindirh.io It's a semi-regular, assorted blog about my adventures and experiences in life. Generally semi-focused on minimalism, computers and life in general. It's powered by https://mataroa.blog/, which is very minimal and a joy to use. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

> Probably https://diff.blog/ would be one of the alternatives. Requires a GitHub account to post. Why are site owners like this? - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Personally, I feel like nothing happened to Reddit. Communities that I visit are pretty much what they were before Reddit changed its API policies. However, there's a subreddit for reddit alternatives (r/RedditAlternative) if you're curious :)) Lemmy and lobsters are the dominant ones in my mind. For HNews? Probably https://diff.blog/ would be one of the alternatives. I must say, if reddit goes dark today, I'd be... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

You could use a personal site and host it in github pages if you don't want to post your content on an existing platform. And since you are interested in computer science, having a personal blog site would add a lot of value in your career. Its not that hard to build one with Hugo Framework if you really just want to get one site up and running. Then link your blog to diff.blog for a wider audience maybe. I have... Source: about 1 year ago

Medium even supports mirror your posts with the canonical URL pointing to the original. This means that any discovery on medium should help your SEO. I don't mind being on medium, but I want to have a canonical own that I own and that medium-haters can use. Personally I have a static site, and when I make a new post it automatically goes out to Mastodon and Medium as well as a couple of "RSS aggregators" (like... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Https://diff.blog is also a pretty good discovery resource, I've found. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago