On my website, I post different stuff:
I could have used medium for tech blog post, marmiton for recipes, Good Reads for writing books comments, Flickr to post my images, Instructable to store my tutorials.
The question is “why do I avoid websites dedicated to that ?”.
Here, I have a single website, where anyone can access to all that stuff. Otherwise, I would need at least 4 accounts (for instance, there are multiple recipes websites, so I may join the main one to show-up). I am free to participate to these websites, and redirect to my website, so that not one or the other option. It is just easier to manage.
On all these website, you have some adds (its very rare nowadays to find website that sell nothing without any adds). That’s normal as they need to pay the hosting servers. They also use your data, or at least, the mass of data they obtain allows them to build something on top of that. As a user, I might be rewarded by a better service, but I am not interested by.
I prefer to store myself my data. If one day, the platform choose to turn into a pay service, I may have no choice, my data is locked there. Same if they go bankrupt one day, I still have my data. My hosting service can also be turned down one day. But I have all the data locally, so I can change at anytime of host. Also, because I have my website in local, I can access it whenever I want, even without network connectivity.
On the Internet, you are free to post anything you want. Because you have one screen between you and the others, people tends to open their mouth, to get fun at insulting people. That is very frustrating, you need to have a good mental filter to handle that. Here, in my blog, there is no “like/dislike/comment” button. You have an “email me” section, so you are still free to send your comment. But that’s less anonymous than a pseudonyme like
xx_girl_21.
Writting text takes time. By writting articles, you learn how to organize your ideas and to present them. That’s valuable skills. But knowing how to code is also valuable. Coding your own website is a proof to youself, and a proof to your future employer. Also, you can customize everything. You are not limited to a fixed template. It takes a lot of time before being sufficient. You will need to add many modules, so for sure, it is not ready to use. But after the main structure is ready, you can adapt it very easily without permission.
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