I think something like what you already do here(bytes) but for blogging.(I think log will be a good name.) Some things like DEV or medium. I don't think you should let users write full on website but something like extended markdown will work. And easy way to share in programming.dev and bytes will be pretty good. Like a list of favourite community at the time of posting.

I do think it might be too much to take on but it would be pretty cool.

Heads up, UlrikHD🙌 brought this post up within our internal mod team chat and so we've just started discussions about this.

Once we feel like we've settled around some poential solutions we'll keep yall updated here🤗

As such I'll temp pin this post so more people can add their thoughts here

(Not an admin)

Do you mean blogging literally within lemmy, or linking to an external website? (Edit- i see you mean within lemmy to cross post to reddit. Leaving rest of my post for some thoughts anyway)

My advice would be to set up a static website and use that for your blog. like hugo but there's a few good options out there to generate static websites. This way if an instance ever does disappear then you still own your content. This also means you aren't limited to a specific community and could share a post where it most directly relates rather than just an individual community where you dump everything.

If you're wanting comments directly on your posts then some people have integrated comments into their blogs by using a federated platform (one example using mastodon). So for instance they make a post on lemmy or mastodon/etc and then in their blog they link the blogpost to it. Now there can be discussion on your blog/lemmy and you aren't at risk of losing so your posts. There's also other ways to do comments like utteranc.es or remark42 too.

tldr IMO if you're wanting to build your own blog/platform its better to have ownership of it and not keeping it only on someone else's server.