I think the title is self-explanatory.
WordPress, self-hosted. Maybe WordPress.com, though I can't vouch for it.
neocities
I've been curious about using Hatena Diary, looks like a comfy no-frills blogging platform.
tumblr
fc2 blog
>>5
Tumblr, as a blogging platform, isn't too bad. Tumblr, as a community, is pretty bad. I wish there was a kind of lightweight embeddable-blog. There's no hierarchy, and maybe not even a separate account to sign in with, instead you write a post and link to it directly from another site. You don't explore the blogging site itself, and it doesn't offer much navigation between things on the blog-site itself, and you simply link or embed the blog posts on your preferred website for sharing things. I.e., A simplified long-form blogging platform where your twitter/tumblr/social-platform-of-choice is the index. Sort of like a Pastebin for blogging.
>>7
You can always use Neocities to host your blog as basic HTML... or even complicated HTML if you so wish.
Just host your own. or you may as well use Blogger/wordpress
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