rebtoor

I decided to start blogging again while I was having lunch on the last day of a conference [^1] I attended. I was thrilled by almost everything I saw and heard there, so I felt the urge to start writing about it.

I've lost faith in social networks long time ago and the only social network I'm still in doesn't deserve any structured thought because of its enshittification.

I spent several days thinking about where and how to start blogging again; I excluded Medium because of their paywall, I haven't considered not even for a second Substack and/or any other walled garden that forces users to subscribe, pay, or download an app to read a bunch of characters that could be easily read on a toaster[^2].

And above all: none of those solutions are free software which is a huge nope for me.

I spent a lot of time fighting against Wordpress so I gave up years ago, Ghost seems oriented to professional writers and GitHub pages, well, thanks but no thanks.

I've heard about WriteFreely on the fediverse, when I still had a presence there, but since I didn't want to selfhost or register an account on an instance that might disappear the next day, i refused to consider it.

And here comes write.as (which, my fault, i never considered despite they are the WriteFreely developers!) that will host my bad written thoughts if I will be consistent.

Kudos to the team!

[^1] Pycon IT, I'll talk about it. [^2] IYKYK, and in that case, congratulations! You're old!