Comparing various blogging platforms
The entirety of human knowledge now almost lives in datacenters. Hence, I was thinking for a place where I can put my written works and it should be a place which would survive after me for sometime atleast. My obvious choices were Medium, Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr. However, among these I have little faith on Tumblr since it is not able to do good business so much. My faith is with Medium, Blogger and Wordpress. And among them Medium has paywalls which is very discouraging but hey, you have to make money somehow unless you are Google. I then look at Blogger and Wordpress. Blogger is owned by Google so I feel like it is going to be around much longer. But then I look at Wordpress's popularity. However, Wordpress looks like it is going to kill free blogs at any time it wants. Wordpress asks for subscriptions and I used to subscribe to Wordpress (had my own domain) but then I thought, hey, when I die I won't be able to pay for the Wordpress subscription then how will people be...