While Blogger is pretty vanilla nonetheless Substack offers a large like-minded 'community'.
My view of Substack is that those who are tired of ads, plugins and SEO vicissitudes are gravitating there. I think the essential attraction is to engage with like-minded people.
I intend to post a few in-depth articles ASAP, primarily to have a base of content that allows potential readers to 'judge.' In the longer term, I plan to settle down to one article a week or every fortnight.
So to begin: