KristieJun 7

Before I became a drystone waller I knew nothing about how walls were built, or by whom. That's the thing about drystone, it's everywhere, it's ancient, it's extraordinary, and most of us walk straight past it.

The very first Drystone Diary is live. What drystone actually is, how it works, and why it matters.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/drystone-diary-what-is-drystone

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Drystone Diary - What Is Drystone?

What is drystone, how does it work, and why does it matter? From the physics of a wall to the ecology of its gaps, we explore drystone walling.

Kristie De Garis
Show threadmirabilos🐈‍⬛Jun 8
@kristiedegaris in case you didn’t know, https://leavesubstack.com/ has lots of resources and reasons
You Should Probably Leave Substack

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

How to Leave Substack.
Show threadKristieJun 8
@mirabilos I was on Ghost and left because it is not free when you have the number of subscribers I have and I couldn't afford it. I am not monetising my work at this point and don't have plans to. I am also chronically ill and the amount of work I was doing for discoverability on Ghost was too much for me.
Show threadmirabilos🐈‍⬛Jun 8
@kristiedegaris if you’re not monetising it, you could put it up on any random website… there will be lots of people on Fedi to help you set it up, if you wish to consider it. Perhaps even a public WriteFreely instance? (there is a list (click on Signups until it lists those where that column is true), but perhaps someone reading this will have actual recommendations­ — I don’t have any because I generally publish on my own server, something with which I’d not want to overload you)
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

Writefreely Sites Status. Find a Writefreely server to sign up for, find one close to you!

Show threadKristie
@mirabilos It's the discoverability that's hard elsewhere. I wrote on my own website for years and struggled to get anywhere. I am a writer and truthfully 'subscribers' even though I do not agree with this metric, mean something to editors in the places I want to be published and where I would actually earn money.
Jun 8 at 6:15amWeb
Show threadmirabilos🐈‍⬛Jun 8

@kristiedegaris ah, okay, that is a point.

Not sure if there are tools to publish on two sites easily enough, so you could have the big platform for discoverability and the free one for your readers who know you already. (I did precisely that for some software of mine but have recently stopped doing that because Github is going to the dregs.) I can understand not wanting that extra effort, though.

It’s always employers and the like who want metrics, isn’t it? 🤬

Show threadKristieJun 8
@mirabilos I wish good concepts and good writing were solely the metrics they cared about.
Show threadmirabilos🐈‍⬛Jun 8
@kristiedegaris don’t we all… *sigh*