So, I've been looking for a platform. I really like Medium as a platform, but I hate their monetisaton by tracking. I don't want to 'sell out' my readers. Also, I don't need it to make money for me. If anything I'd pay to publish it. But it would be nice if I could use it to get my name out there more on the topics I write about. I want to write from a purely technical point of view, I don't want to do any placement even for products from my employer.

However I'd like to get some kind of attention to it. I could of course publish it on a self-hosted wordpress or something but it means there's hardly any point because nobody would ever see it. Ideally I'd like to be on a public platform where likeminded souls could come across it by chance. I don't want to actively promote it here (I know that's not even allowed anyway!) or anywhere, but it would be nice if people that are interested could at least have a chance to come across it.

In other words, I'm looking for the "Hacker News" of blogging sites :)

Any ideas? Of course I've been looking but the mainstream ones are all collecting data. I came across https://habr.com which kinda resonated with me: very technical content, not much marketing placement. But it's very Russian focused. Digging into stuff about the site (like pricing and privacy: https://habrastorage.org/storage/stuff/habr/service_price.pdf ) turns up documents that are in Russian only.

So I was wondering if you'd have any other ideas. I'd appreciate any feedback!