I use Medium sporadically, and I think it's a good platform to use if you don't already have an audience, since it's easy to repost to larger publications and gain distribution.<p>Once you gain an audience, or if you already have one, then using an open source platform is the way to go.<p>WordPress is probably the best choice, since the ecosystem is just so much larger than anything else out there. I would really suggest finding a managed service over deploying it on an ec2 instance or something. Security is a constant battle on WordPress sites, and it's just better to have someone else deal with that.<p>If you don't care about distribution or growing an audience and are just blogging for fun, then something like Hugo might be a good choice.
I write my posts[0] in Org mode[1], export them to Markdown using ox-hugo[2], publish to HTML using Hugo[3], and deploy the site over HTTPS using Netlify[4].<p>[0]: <a href="https://scripter.co" rel="nofollow">https://scripter.co</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://orgmode.org/" rel="nofollow">https://orgmode.org/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/" rel="nofollow">https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://gohugo.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gohugo.io/</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://www.netlify.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.netlify.com/</a>