It would be an assortment of contents. Between Linux, software, privacy, etc. guides.
My concern is in regards to AI… I think many are relying more and more on it. Making such content a waste of my time in this perspective.
I might just do it, because of my own motivations. But, I still would need to see arguments addressing my concern either in favour or not. Thanks!
If you think it would be fun, go for it. You can always stop if it turns out you don’t enjoy it as much as you thought but we can always do with more humans writing interesting things.
Just please don’t delete it if you talk about obscure Linux stuff. I have solved so many problems because of people blogging about obscure tech stuff
Do it
I think the issue isn’t AI stealing your content but AI flooding the web with slop.
Once upon a time you could find a niche without much content, write a blog and maybe even monetise it with some ad space to pay for costs plus a coffee. A friend of mine used to make a surprisingly decent income with a blog about coi carp.
There was always the risk someone else would start posting in the same niche and then you’d be competing for attention.
Now, though, it’s trivially easy to spin up an AI powered blog on any topic with dozens of SEO optimised articles per day and no human effort required.
So now you’re not competing with one or two other humans in your niche, you’re competing with potentially hundreds of AISlop blogs.
Personally I’d look to publish your content in video format. Text is pretty much a lost game at this point, video might hold out a little longer because it’s the personalities of channel owners that keeps people coming in.
I love reading blogs and sad there’s only a few nowadays. But if you want to do it, do it and also a RSS Feed is a plus!
Do what you enjoy and do it for yourself. If someone else likes it great, but you’re doing it primarily for YOU, nobody else.
Is Geocities still a thing?
Joking aside, if it makes you feel good, is something you genuinely want to do, and your speech isn’t harmful or oppressive to others, then you do you.
Neocities is.
I’ve considered it, but I’m not aware of any blogging platforms that respect my privacy and align with my values. It’s all corpo-slop that I’ve seen.
People already accuse me of being AI because LLMs were trained on my posts (and those of others, of course), so anyone with good grammar and use of more than the five basic punctuation marks gets accused… when really, the LLMs are doing it because we taught them, with posts and whatnot they’ve scraped going back 30 years. So I know a blog will be scraped, too. But at least I can put a face to it, or at least an avatar. Because a blog is largely about the blogger and who the blogger is, matters. Whereas on Lemmy or services like it, it’s mostly about the content. No one cares who you or I are; it’s our opinions that matter.
So… what platform are you looking at? Because I’m interested in software and privacy. Linux less so, though I’m rooting for it on platforms that run Windows.
Vocabulary as well. Using a word of more than 3 syllables these days can get you accused of being an LLM.
I’m not aware of any blogging platforms that respect my privacy and align with my values.
Why rely on someone else’s property?
So long as you have a decent symmetrical Internet connection and your ISP does not block port 443 (https, and ideally also port 80 - plain http - for emergency fallback), you can self-host any kind of website you want.
Stick with a static site generator, and your technical needs for hosting will drop down to practically nothing. You could run your website on almost any kind of a low-power device, including - if you have reflashed it with something like OpenWRT - the gateway router to your home network (although this isn’t something I recommend beyond a “holy shit, it worked!” scope).
There are even people running static websites on computers close to four decades old (512k Macintosh, FTW), although the limiting factor there isn’t the hosting but the computer’s responsiveness in responding to page requests… they aren’t the most spry circuits in operation and are easily overwhelmed.
Honestly, the sky is the limit for what you can do, and you can go as simple or as technologically complex as you desire.
I was thinking on hosting a static site, renting my own VPS. I always write in markdown, so
pandocwould suffice (even if it were just a starting point…) Since I’d be using markdown, the content is highly transferable (e.g. when I wanted to move onto Publii, Ghost or other engine).In your case, I’d recommend checking https://writefreely.org/
AI would use it certainly. So might people. I dunno. I don’t see what you gain by not doing it honestly. May want to copywrite everything you write and do it in doc files that you put on git or something.
maybe they should set up Anubis.
It isn’t bulletproof, and has been briefly circumvented before, but unfortunately it is the ONLY anti-AI / intellectual-theft-prevention system currently out there.
Definitely use it. AI can and will ignore any generally-accepted copyright statements on the site.
