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I've grown a little tired of the increasing walled gardens where your information is public but it's locked behind a information paywall of sorts that only benefits the site owner.
Blogger (Google) makes money off these blogs for sure, or they would kill off blogger, but anyone can search for and access them.* And that means information is freely available.
I've planned many a trip off a blog trip report that wasn't meant as a source of beta. Just folks musings. And I'm sure folks have done the same with Mountain Visions.
Meta sites on the other hand (Facebooks parent company) still allow you to overshare but they hold all the information behind a sort of paywall. This benefits absolutely no one but Meta and actually is the entire antithesis of why the internet became so important.
I think the big appeal early on with Facebook was your post were viewed by most of the folks you cared about. People you likely interacted with in real life. Increasingly, feeds are clogged with ads and recommended post. And with people friending (follow) folks they don't even know feeds are getting clogged. It's basically turning into a Chinese style internet where everything is controlled by one company including what the algorithm wants you to see. Sure engagement is higher but thats as short term dopamine boost, not a long term solution.
I've mused enough, the nitty gritty of my plan -though I've planned on this before- is to try to cross post for now to the blog also while (and this is the ambitious part), retroactively pull old Meta post and place them on the blog. I'm skeptical this happens with any volume, but I'd like to give it a shot.
*Many search engines strongly priortize commercial, sales and paid sites. I use Mojeek when trying to find things I don't have to pay for. Like if you search "bikepacking" you'll get a lot of commercial sites. Or places to buy gear. That's great, but I want to search trip reports and personal blogs. Mojeek does that best. And also, although it's Russian, Yandex tends to be better as well. Especially for image searches.
