@JollyOrc@octodon.social Dunno; when I joined the #Blogosphere, it was full of blogs on FQDNs, run by people. And not because their hoster made it dead easy ...

Enter blogspot.com, now blogger.com. There it's super easy to start a 08/15 blog for basically no money.

tumblr was a thing once, but isn't anymore, is it?

As for the Fediverse, simple options do exist, like https://300m.com/privacy/setting-up-a-mastodon-server-at-digitalocean/