Hi friends,
I’ve been blogging online since 2008.
That seems like an eternity, but I wasn’t doing it regularly or consistently until the late 2010s. And even then, it was only in German (my mother tongue, in case you didn’t know).
Only from the 2020s on did I write my stuff in English. And man, that opened up a lot of doors. First and foremost, Medium writing. I discovered Medium in 2021 and was quickly in love with the platform. Making a good amount of money there helped a lot, too, of course.
I was so into Medium that I ditched all my other writing platforms (like WordPress and Vocal) for Medium at one point. It was going great.
But then, I figured having only one platform might not be the best idea. For safety reasons, for example.
So I discovered Substack. Another huge platform for me.
Now, I thought about my 15+ years in blogging and the platforms I’ve used over this period of time. …
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