Today marks the 21st year since I made the first blog post on this site on 2nd Oct 2004. So it’s been 21 years that I have been posting random thoughts online and life is a lot different from when I started posting here. Since I first posted on the blog, I have moved to a different continent (and multiple cities), switched jobs multiple times, got married. (Interestingly my wedding anniversary is coming up as well in little over a weeks time as well).
During this time the site has:
Total Published posts : 1,607
Total Published Comments : 793
Most popular post is: “Trip of a Lifetime: Antarctica!” with 47,249 views
The top 3 Countries of blog visitors are: US, India and Russia (Definitely wasn’t expecting Russia to make it to the top 3).
I like having a blog because I control what goes on it and how it is presented. No one can force me to remove a post or penalize me for posting something that the algorithm didn’t like and now that the blog is federated posts here are autoshared and publicly searchable on Mastodon, LinkedIn and Facebook (mostly as FB gives so much trouble trying to autopost). This is in accordance to POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), which is the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.
Thank you all for reading my ramblings over the years and letting me know that you actually like the stuff I post. 🙂
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya