Back To Writing On My Website
It has been a long time since I have written a blog post here on my website. I just looked back and saw that May 26th, 2022 was the last time that I posted anything here. I was posting on Medium and Substack for a while in 2023 and I was being pretty consistent with it but I have always wanted to be able to get back to my website to post all of my blog posts.
There are a few different reasons for me wanting to do that.
Ads - I don’t like that a lot of places that host blog posts tend to have ads on them. I know that I don’t like to constantly see ads when I am trying to read something that someone wrote. I am pretty sure that I am not the only one that feels this way. It is distracting and it is annoying to have to close out ads when I am just trying to read. I understand that ads are a way of life these days but there are a lot of websites that tend to go overboard with them and they tend to be a terrible experience for the user.
Having to sign up for an account - A lot of websites make you sign up for their service to read the material that is on their website. Medium, Substack, and even The New York Times come to my mind. I know that the service is trying to make money but even the free stuff that authors want to put out there for people is being gatekept by services that only let you read a certain amount of free articles every 24 hours unless you make an account.
True Freedom - All services that are out there and let you use their platform to write content have agendas. If you say something bad about their service or say something that they don’t agree with, they can remove your account and get rid of all the work that you have done up to that point. I don’t think that I am a controversial individual but I do sometimes try to discuss that maybe everyone won’t agree with and it gives me peace of mind to know that this website is mine and that everything that I put here is things that I want to be here.
Everything has its shortcomings and there is always a compromise that has to be made when selecting anything in life. For me, the good is starting to outweigh the bad when it comes to writing on my website. Maybe people won’t be able to discover me as much in the beginning of writing again on my website but I do think that it is good to start this now when I don’t have such a big audience.
With that all being said, welcome to my website if this is your first time here. I am planning to rearrange things in the future and update things so be on the lookout for that. Until my next blog post feel free to look at the pretty barebones layout of my site.
