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I've considered it, but I'm not aware of any blogging platforms that respect my privacy and align with my values. It's all corpo-slop that I've seen.
People already accuse me of being AI because LLMs were trained on my posts (and those of others, of course), so anyone with good grammar and use of more than the five basic punctuation marks gets accused... when really, the LLMs are doing it because we taught them, with posts and whatnot they've scraped going back 30 years. So I know a blog will be scraped, too. But at least I can put a face to it, or at least an avatar. Because a blog is largely about the blogger and who the blogger is, matters. Whereas on Lemmy or services like it, it's mostly about the content. No one cares who you or I are; it's our opinions that matter.
So... what platform are you looking at? Because I'm interested in software and privacy. Linux less so, though I'm rooting for it on platforms that run Windows.
You don't need a "platform" if you just want a simple blog. I don't know your values, but you can check mine: https://lnar.dev/blog/blog-setup/
I'm just getting my feet wet really, but I love that setup. The only change since that post is that I use Obsidian for editing (and some minor extension changes). It's a shame Obsidian is not FOSS, but it also doesn't matter as there is no lock-in and easy to switch.