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Do any of you guys own a blog? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by roawn@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I recently started making newsletters for friends as i have deleted all social media (bar this) and i find it super fun and a refreshing way to keep in contact (we send them back to each other). I try and create a new theme every month to pass onto them. And this month, i made a small static site with a few jokey articles on it.

At the end of it, it made me quite nostalic for what we used to have (i had an awful blog in high school, before social media took ahold).

Anyway, after reflecting on it. It made me want to find a few more blogs to read because i loved the format of it and it made me wonder, do you guys have a blog? what do you write about?

Do you want one? what WOULD you write about?

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[–] roawn@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

is it the styles you're not a fan of?

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's more like, a blog is a personal thing. Using some off the shelf solutions removes that sense of personality to me I guess. It kind of makes the act of publishing the post feel like I've cheated somehow, when, all I'm really doing is putting text on the internet and I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself from a technical POV.

I get this with game dev as well, I'm much happier with games where I feel like I've worked with lower level tooling than a pre made engine. Sort of a personal not made here syndrome thing I suppose.