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In some ways I feel like I have the opposite problem. I like to occasionally write tech related articles but my blog mainly features information related to my hobby and that’s what most people follow my blog for. Now I feel weird if I want to post a tech related article because everyone will get notifications for it when they’re expecting hobby related posts

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I struggled with this too. I used to have separate blogs for different interests (especially anime, for fear of judgement, some of which has since come true in some of the comments below!) Eventually I merged them back to save on maintenance, and I'm glad I did.

People should expect that a personal site necessarily has your interests. I don't think it'd be weird at all for you to post tech-related content. And you never know, there might be an intersection with your exiting readers you didn't know about.

How are the notifications handeled? If it's by RSS, you could set up an RSS feed for just your hobby posts, which I imagine have a separate tag.

Email through jetpack plugin on a Wordpress blog. I have actually thought about looking into suppressing certain things but I am not sure there are many options for this plugin. I could create a different post type maybe as this only sends out updates on regular blog posts.

Tired: RSS

Wired: ActivityPub

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