A Looming Migration?

So, I think I might have to move this blog.

There are a couple of reasons for this. The first was rather petty - I don't like how Google has capitulated to this fascist regime and its insistence on renaming the Gulf of Mexico. I am of the opinion that anyone and everyone who can do so has a duty to resist everything that the current POTUS and his cronies do, including the little things that there seems no real harm in. Relabeling and redefining things is a very real tactic that despots use to destabilize established institutions and gain consent to big atrocities through a series of innocuous demands. I won't be having it, and I don't want to risk complicity by continuing to use Google's blogging platform.

The other reason is more practical, though. Lately I've been noticing that there's a tendency for Blogger's text editor to freeze at odd times when I'm typing out a post. No cursor, new text will not appear, and it is impossible to reload the page no matter what I try. My only recourse is to exit the window and open a new one, and sometimes I have to do it multiple times during a blogging session. It really takes the wind out of my sails when this happens, because when I hit a groove in writing, it is immensely disruptive to have everything just come to a screaming halt, interrupting in the most brutal way the train of thought I was on.

I initially chose Blogger because it was free, accessible, had its own image hosting, and I could access it from pretty much anywhere. But, and pardon my Cory Doctorow, this platform has become so enshittified as to finally tip those switching costs into the "affordable" column. The only question now is where I want to go.

There are a lot of options out there, and I feel a little paralyzed by choice, as well as the work of migrating. As I said, Blogger's image hosting has always made the process easy, but I think most of the alternatives will require a separate image site. I'll also have to decide if I want to try to move all the posts I've already done (close to 700 as of this posting), or just keep this blog open and accessible, with a link to its new home for posts going forward once I've acquired a new host. Reposting all the content from here would be a monumental task, but I kind of want all my posts in one convenient place, if possible. I suppose this is going to largely depend on whether I choose a host that's compatible with Blogger, so I can download all the old posts and import them onto the new blog. 

These are my main difficulties presented, and now I'd like input from the readers. Where would it be most convenient for YOU to follow me? Is there a platform that you particularly like or think would be easy to make a transition to? Would you like to make an argument for why I should stay here, despite my issues above? There may be some factors that I haven't considered that you foresee, so let me know! Either way, it'll be a process; in the event that a move happens, it certainly won't happen overnight, and there will be plenty of time to discuss the options. 

In the meantime, I'll continue to post. I have a bit of a stubborn streak, as longtime readers may be aware, and no amount of dissatisfaction with my platform will induce me to give up my almost decade-long effort to record every inane opinion I have on select manga. Refusing to indulge this little amusement would just be punishing myself and frequenters of this blog, and make absolutely no difference to Google. 

As usual, we're all just looking out for ourselves in the cold shadows of immense money-printing machines.