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This has always been the way since the internet.

Register your domain. Write on that domain (using CMS you control). And then use a range of social media / forums / creator platforms to get traffic to your site.

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> Write on that domain (using CMS you control). And then use a range of social media / forums / creator platforms to get traffic to your site.

Or if you want to eat your cake and have it too, follow the POSSE strategy to get the discoverability benefits of services like Medium without betting the farm on it.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Thanks! Nice to see a name for what's been rattling in my brain ;-)

Thanks for that. I have been doing this but did not know there was so much more to it.

You don't even have to pay for hosting or anything. Keep your stuff on github and use a CDN with free integration. It's fire and forget as long as you keep the domain registered. If github or your CDN misbehaves moving is pretty trivial and doesn't affect your site's content or address.

Some people don't have those skills and don't want to learn them. They just want to write and produce good stuff. But I hear you.

Word can export html and there are GUIs for github that don't need skills. I guess you could say there's some small amount of learning involved but it's extremely minimal. Arguably not more than these social media sites.

> Some people don't have those skills and don't want to learn them.

But isn’t that always the chasm of running your own business vs. being an employee or small subcontractor?

The more control you want, the more broad your skill set and investment of your time needs to be.

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