[KatyaV]

I guess it depends on what the goal of your blog is. If you’re only using it as a vehicle to let your thoughts out or scream into the void, there’s probably no need for comments or sharing. If you care about your content getting seen, however, you’ll need to do SEO optimisation which is sometimes stupid and brain-numbing (recipe websites put their grandma’s entire life history before the actual recipe because it keeps readers on the website for longer, which means it shows up higher in search results; clickbait-y titles like “10 Reasons Your Partner Hates You” or “How To Do So-and-so, Updated 2024” will get more clicks and move themselves up the search page). So a blog that starts off as an innocuous photo dump might end up looking more like YouTube’s homepage: titles and photos that are vague enough to pique interest, but mind-numbing content that makes you wish you’d never clicked; a heavy emphasis on liking, sharing and subscribing; and eventually, ad sponsorship. Personally I hate this type of content, so if I were to start a blog I would pay for an ad-free website out of pocket or use something like Substack.