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+I decided to start hosting a website with real content again. The catch is that it’s a wiki, so it’s not really a website or a blog. My main thesis behind this is that, in the past, I’ve tried to essentially run a static site with various index pages with no real organization beyond the blog format and some custom styling and hints.
+I think the main problem with a blog or even SNS is the strict adherence to a linear post format. Linear posts are great, but by no means are they essential or even necessarily the core content. I don’t expect that people will read journal style posts, except for the most passionate of readers, but most CMS software and static site software assumes that this isn’t true.
+The reality is basically that personal blogs are out of fashion, and hosting one now is essentially crazy. If you’re a journalist and you have a specific niche and following, it does work (look at John Gruber), but I’m really not.
+But! Despite this, there are practical reasons to host a website. For example, just having a place where you can publish your own content from time to time is still valuable. In moving to [[:japan]], I’ve learned a lot about the process that would be valuable to share, but otherwise lack an appropriate venue. Now I have one!
+Similarly, other formats just don’t work as well. Obsidian Publish seems cool on paper, but it’s not really SEO-able, or even searchable. Same with TiddlyWiki. I like these systems as concepts, but they don’t work well as hosted websites.
+There was a post called [[https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html |blogs rot. wikis wait.]] from j3s, and I really actually think the title says it all. People who visit a blog find that it hasn’t had new posts and run away. But a wiki just doesn’t have the same time-based chronology. This led me down the path I’ve arrived at today: hosting a wiki.
+I hope to use this as a place to post useful and meaningful content, but also to blog in public again. I think maybe I won’t feel pressured to post new things every week or anything, and I’ll feel more comfortable if it stays online for a while with no major updates.
+this wiki is [[:the_quantic_sea|the quantic sea]].