Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.
I beg you to stop. You are not helping. People are reading your posts and thinking 'that seems really complicated... I can' t do that'.
Every single post about self-hosting is literally that Simpsons gag about fixing the foundations to your own house "And if you don't have ceramic stuck-o-lath then aluminium stuck-o-lath will work just as well!"
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