I don't understand why people use Medium or similar gated blogging platforms. It is so easy to use Wordpress. You can get a domain name with managed wordpress install ready to roll for less than $50 a year. And you become the owner of your own publications.

Or if you want to do it yourself, just install a Ghost Docker container in some spare space of that $5 Digital Ocean instance, and you are ready to go.

With a $5 DO instance I've got a self hosted recipe book (RecipeSage), Bookmark Service (LinkAce), blogging platform (Ghost) and also use it as a Socks Proxy. I've got nightly backups for $1.5 and everything was as easy as docker-compose up.

I understand non-technical people suffering the issues of internet deplatforming, but for a self-named "The Practical Dev" ?