@Vvdt the easiest is probably Known, which I use on cleverdevil.io. It will play pretty nicely with Micro.blog out of the box, and with some tweaks, it can really be dialed in.
@cleverdevil @vvdt I didn’t know of known (sorry could t resist but also true). I think @blot is also quite popular.
@Vvdt don’t know known but @blot rocks
@vasta that’s right - but technically neither is my wordpress site hosted in some servers in Chicago - or wherever they are kept.
In fact compared to that scenario arguably I would say blot is closer to self hosting than Wordpress.
If Dropbox closes tonight ... all my content is in my Dropbox in my Mac, no exception - if my hosting provider closes tonight I will have everything on my Mac up to the last time I synched it with mars edit.
Of course if blot itself disappeared / I would need to work hard on a replacement way to show those files on a web site.
But get what you are saying.
Importance to me are actual posts but links of actual posts will break if David goes away .... don’t do that @blot
@JohnPhilpin Blot may be closer to self-hosted than WordPress, but this is not a small concern:
Of course if blot itself disappeared / I would need to work hard on a replacement way to show those files on a web site.
There are a number of ways to backup a WordPress site. Springing for Jetpack Personal is worth it, just for the backups that you can migrate to another WordPress site on any one of a number of hosts.
That's not to say that Blot is a bad idea, but it's worth considering these possibilities.
@pauljacobson Paul, yes thankyou.
I understand ... I think I am trying to ask ourselves what do we want people to be responsible for and how do we make it easy for them.
And by people I mean people in general. The ‘poets’ as @Dave calls them. How do we lower THEIR barrier to entry, flatten the learning curve so to speak.
These people want to get their words, pictures, music, movies ... onto a site quickly and simply - I think backups come later in their thinking ...
Of course I have zero data to back that up .... just a gut feeling and watching specific cases.
Re Wordpress .....
Personally, I have a bad habit of putting up blogs all the time .. including Wordpress .. and I run an Australian based service called WPMUDEV which handles a lot of things for me including backups.
These people want to get their words, pictures, music, movies ... onto a site quickly and simply - I think backups come later in their thinking ...
Sure, although I think Jane/Joe Poet will still find a blog on a service like WordPress.com/Wix/Squarespace will be more convenient, once they get past the initial learning curve for the platform.