A list of the blogging platforms

I have included this list from the author:

On blogging and blogging platforms. – Ru

Some smart people on Mastodon have recommended just keeping things as they are, and posting occasionally if that’s what I find myself comfortable with — even if it’s just 3 posts in one whole year — and that sounds logically quite right.
Plus, keeping things as they are has the least amount of resistance. It’s probably why I haven’t done anything radical for a long time now. A long time at least in the blogging-setup timezone.

The list:

ubstack seems like a misfit and UX hell.
While Matt has been kind enough to offer a regional discount, I’m not sure I still see a long-term future with Write.as (something really nice about it is it’s a part of the fediverse).
Ghost is incredibly expensive and for my use case, not so different from WordPress. It doesn’t offer anything that makes me want to really try it given my feature requirements.
Medium.com hasn’t been held in high regard for a long time now. And uncertainty around their business decisions is something I don’t want to deal with.
Dev.to does not seem like a fun place to be. It’s a much nicer Medium.com, but its niche is of course just developers. I don’t make many of those posts anymore. Plus it’s kind of like Instagram but for developer blogs. I just don’t like the vibe.
Plume is not maintained. Side story: I was close to committing to a small annual monetary support but that’s when I found out it’s no longer actively maintained.
BearBlog won’t allow scripts and therefore Plausible Analytics.
Prose.sh is way too geeky. SSH for login? Nope. Just yesterday, I opened and edited this post on my phone. A web browser was all I needed. WordPress obliged, too, of course.
Micro.blog seems interesting but I’m not sure it’s one for me. Manton declined a regional price too.
Publii sounds like an excellent idea in theory but all it felt to me was clumsy and more work than a managed/hosted blog.
Self-hosting Tanzawa or GoBlog is no longer a task I want to undertake.