A.I. is getting into everything, and it’s gotten on my nerves. It’s disruptive, and its promise or potential still seems overhyped to me. Most recently, A.I. is disrupting Tumblr and WorPress.com. I already had much unwelcome upheaval with WordPress a couple years back and am in no mood to repeat such. Yet here I am, contemplating once again migrating to a new blog host. Sigh.
Yesterday, news broke that Automattic, owner of Tumblr and WordPress, is in talks with A.I. companies to sell user data – unless you opt out. Later that day, I saw WordPress share a post explaining how to do so. I’ve voted with my click and noped outta my blog posts being sold.
But that adds a wrinkle to the situation. Now my blog posts will no longer appear in the WordPress Reader. Are you kidding me? Thanks, open internet, for nothing. /rant.
It is what it is.
I face a choice. Stick to things on WordPress.com as they are, with a growing distaste for A.I. and what I deem as too much hype for the latest tech craze. Or I can leave WordPress and go…where?
Alternative blog hosts I may consider include some I’ve recently enjoyed and ones I’ve never tried:
The first three are ones I’ve tried in the past two years. My Neocities site is recent and was on the way to becoming my new blog home until last month when I settled back into WordPress (or so I thought). I still have most of my posts also on Blogger (very fond of ye ol’ blogspot). And Micro.blog is an ideal blog host for sure.
The last three look super simple, clean, and interesting. But I don’t know if I want to learn another new way to blog.
One extra here gets honorable mention: Ghost. I’ve considered it before but find it less appealing now; it’s more than I want to pay for to be honest.
Overall, I’m not keen to make a big migration. I want to have the simplest way to blog, to just get my thoughts and words online that exceed character limits set by social media sites. I’ve used markdown. I’ve hand-coded HTML. But I prefer straightforward WYSIWYG or plain text.
There are other blogging things to consider too, of course. But I’m tired. So for now, I’m going to wait and see, taking the path of least resistance. I’ll press on with WordPress unless/until I decide to move away and not boomerang back.
The A.I. shenanigans, though, need to stop. I don’t want any more “smart” stuff to manage because it’s never smart enough. I don’t want to talk to a stupid “smart” assistant; I want to talk to real people with human intelligence.
It might turn out that the only way to have a real conversation with real people is to log off, “touch-grass,” and employ what no A.I. can ever do - have face to face talks.
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