Can relate to a lot of this as a very small content creator that has been doing it for fun for over 10 years.
On online weirdos - this is very much a thing. You can pick up weirdly persistent stalkers and haters and it can be exhausting and sometimes scary.
For me, I do it for fun. I find it very frustrating to have conversations with followers/viewers that are wanting me to do $thing and why don't I open subs to $monetize blah blah and I explain that while I do enjoy putting out content, at the end of the day this is for my enjoyment and there is zero chance I can make as much as I do from it as my day job, so I don't. It's very frustrating and a sad state of affairs that people can't seem to grasp the idea of making content for the sake of making content. That's how the early internet was, no one was getting paid, and it put out arguably some of the best there has been.
Regarding hosting/seo stuff, I always let platforms like twitch, meta, YT, etc. manage that for me rather than wrangling SEO hell, but I acknowledge the video space is a bit different than the blog space. For the writing I do, I wouldn't dream of self hosting for the reasons he describes.
+1 - I picked up my first semi-stalker / email harasser recently from blogging and sending out a newsletter about apps I build and open-source. Pretty weird experience.
On online weirdos - this is very much a thing. You can pick up weirdly persistent stalkers and haters and it can be exhausting and sometimes scary.
For me, I do it for fun. I find it very frustrating to have conversations with followers/viewers that are wanting me to do $thing and why don't I open subs to $monetize blah blah and I explain that while I do enjoy putting out content, at the end of the day this is for my enjoyment and there is zero chance I can make as much as I do from it as my day job, so I don't. It's very frustrating and a sad state of affairs that people can't seem to grasp the idea of making content for the sake of making content. That's how the early internet was, no one was getting paid, and it put out arguably some of the best there has been.
Regarding hosting/seo stuff, I always let platforms like twitch, meta, YT, etc. manage that for me rather than wrangling SEO hell, but I acknowledge the video space is a bit different than the blog space. For the writing I do, I wouldn't dream of self hosting for the reasons he describes.