Early this year, I wrote about staying with WordPress, noting that much of the grass was greener there. And I wanted to hold onto certain features: subscribers, comments, readers, and the community.
These are tough things to let go of. Yet I’m leaning towards a move to Pika.
In my previous post, I focused on the standout simplicity of Pika and some unsettling instability at WordPress as strong reasons to migrate over. At its core, Pika is a solid foundation for blogging.
I don’t know if it will ever have its own native comment system or subscriber feature. But I think I’m okay with giving up the community features of WordPress.
The bloggers I follow there (and on other blogging sites) are on the web, not just a WordPress silo. It’s still easy to comment on their blogs. I follow many of them in my RSS reader (Feedly) already. Not only that, I follow bloggers on social media (Mastodon, Threads) and comment there too. Likewise, I get comments for my posts on social media.
I also might reinstate the “Reply by email” link at the bottom of my posts on Pika, or just direct readers to my Contact page, which also has a nice contact form (See Letterbird) in addition to my email and social links.
The blogosphere, a community of readers and fellow bloggers, is on the web — the open web. Blogs, email (newsletters), and RSS are seeing somewhat of a resurgence I think. And social-networking, though fragmented, is becoming federated, decentralized, and thus more open than traditional social media silos.
Aside — You know, social-networking needs not be fragmented. It depends on how we, the netizens of cyberspace, decide to weave this world wide web. See a fragment, a random blog, weave it in: add link to blogroll.
So yeah, I think blogging on Pika, leaving a few WordPress perks behind, should work out well enough.
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