There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites.
Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion.
It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.
I think making your articles on the fediverse is better than building your blog website from scratch.
Instead of https://thisismywebsite.com/blog/
instead do https://publiclemmyinstance.com/c/myblog
This way, it better integrates with fediverse mechanics such as follow, like, comment. Also people can discover your stuff through the “all” feed, even though unlikely, maybe one day we’ll get more interesting recommendation algorithms for the fediverse.
Or you create a post on your blog and post the hyperlink to it on Lemmy and maybe some other platforms. Pretty much what I have done here, except that it is not my blog in this case.
And whoever likes you website can decide to follow you on Lemmy or some other platform or to subscribe to your RSS/ATOM feed.
Lemmy instances are not really dependable enough for that. Setting up your own instance would be better, but there’s still a discoverability problem because instances don’t automatically add you to their feeds.
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