Hi All. One of the reasons I don’t have a blog for myself is that I don’t want to write in ‘popular’ blog platforms… Any ideas where we can have a blog in a good place (except self-hosting)?
Gokulakrishna.
Edit: Oh the mewe platform from another thread I asked about… I’ll check that out. Any other suggestions?
Hi Gokul, did you check if the Fediverse has something for you
Thanks I’ll check that.
I looked into Substack to see about creating a tech newsletter there. Perhaps this could be a project of First Person Plural while we’re waiting to receive nonprofit status. Would you be interested, @gkrishnaks, in writing for such a publication? Substack offers the ability to create a paid section that uses Stripe.
Hi Pat. I think I receive some newsletter from someone using substack. Still not sure if it’s fine to collect email accounts to deliver a newsletter versus just making posts in a blog, bcos we will have to trust the substack platform to hold follower emails… if we do choose it, if we have have a paid section (not sure about “paid premium content” vs microdonations model…) eventually move paid section articles to public view at a date after a window so that stuff doesn’t get stuck behind paywall forever. 
All good points for discussion, @gkrishnaks. Instead of consumer or customer, we can think of the reader/student who reads to learn–and the teacher who teaches by sharing. I think moving information into the public realm after it’s resided behind a paywall is a great idea.
Having people donate according to their means rather than pay for knowledge might be a good idea too.
Let’s try to build such an ethical model.
create a blogs using wordpress.com or wix.com those are the best platforms to create blogs
Agree that wordpress is a good platform to use. However, unless you pay for it, you will have ads–sometimes strange ones–on your pages.
But you can make a lot of money if you are able to rank websites using wordpress.
Yeah I also agree with that. Wix Or WordPress? What do you think which one is more suitable for the Professional Business Website or Creating a Blog? These both provide an Amazing Website Building Editor which can be helpful for any Non-Technical or Newbie. But I want to know that if you have a single choice, which one you will go for? WordPress Or Wix?
I’m really interested in ghost.org. They are a completely nonprofit foundation, and 100% of their code is free and open source. They support their development (again they are 100% nonprofit) through subscriptions which include hosting and management, but you can also host your own instance for free. Not only will ghost manage your blog, but also your email lists, memberships and subscriptions.
Recently they’ve taken to facilitating subscription-based membership model because they recognise that the ad-based “free” model has many problems.
Welcome to the community, Camila 
I would not recommend Wix (or Squarespace for that matter). It adds a load of cruft and overhead to your page, which will weigh multiple megabytes unnecessarily. And it tracks you too. From these two choices I’d go with a Wordpress install on your shared hosting provider, if they offer that, and based off of wordpress.org.
Other than that @Free’s suggestion of Ghost is a good one. With a bit of tech-saviness you could also install one of the many static site generators that exist. Using these you could even host from Github or Gitlab directly and attach your custom domain to the code repository. Github auto-generates Jekyll sites after each change, and Gitlab supports even more static site generators, like Hugo out-of-the-box for that. Another option is hosting them on Netlify to get CMS UI functionality.
With these you can write your site content using simple Markdown text that is converted to html using your predefined layout and styles.
If you want to go new-age and exciting, then you could go for Write.as or Writefreely and make your Medium-style blog part of the Fediverse and IndieWeb as well as on the regular Web. Wordpress, btw. also has Fediverse (ActivityPub) plugins.
Thank you for the Warm Welcome and your Suggestion.
I really appreciate it.
Second that.
When self-hosting, anything that is not Wordpress will mostly keep you out of focus for automated attacks on vulnerabilities, which can be a hssle. Also personally I found the huge ecosystem of templates, plugins etc. to be a huge distraction - especially if you want to focus on writing, not creating a comprehensive website with many bells and whistles.