I've gone through various iterations of my blog/site. I started in LiveJournal back in the day, then moved to Blogger, and then tested the waters with Medium. Eventually, I concluded the same as the author: that I had to own my content in my own site, but that it was OK to use other established platforms for redistribution. And this is why I haven't jumped onto the Substack bandwagon.
I described the thought process I went through here: https://jmmv.dev/2016/01/medium-experiment-wrapup.html and am currently using Hugo to build my site. Granted, creating content via Markdown is slightly more convoluted than using a web UI, but the feeling of control and future-proofness I get cannot be matched.
I described the thought process I went through here: https://jmmv.dev/2016/01/medium-experiment-wrapup.html and am currently using Hugo to build my site. Granted, creating content via Markdown is slightly more convoluted than using a web UI, but the feeling of control and future-proofness I get cannot be matched.