[HermanMartinus]

I run Bear Blog (https://bearblog.dev) which is a privacy-centric, minimalist blogging platform.

It's been running for over 4 years with about 10k active blogs. I'm the sole founder and maintainer. I write about it at https://herman.bearblog.dev

It pays me an above average salary and is mostly unaffected by the recent financial trends. I have however been dealing with a lot more AI generated backlink spam since ChatGPT hit the internet.

[yyyyddmm]

Hi, first of all congratulations, it is a service I love and I follow some of the blogs hosted by you.

I've always thought about wanting to start a mini blogging platform similar to yours but I've always been stopped by this: how do you moderate the content? if someone posts something illegal, how does it work? if illicit messages or photos are posted, of whatever form, isn't it a big deal to get out and let the police know it's not your fault? is a simple disclaimer of reponsibility enough?

thank you very much!

[user2147483647]

They have a pretty efficient manual review process. https://docs.bearblog.dev/review-process/

[milleniall]

I dont use Bear Blog, but i love the blogs on that platform. It is what the old internet used to be.

Example - https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/2022-11-13/

[rasmus1610]

I really love bear blog, I've seen it several times now on HN. But how do you earn money from it? Donations?

edit: nvm. I saw the paid upgrade feature :)

[tomcam]

Where?