new queer run community blog

hey everyone on the interweb, firstly, sorry for the broken english, it is not my first language. i'm writing this from calcutta, india. my chosen family and I have decided to start a decentralised blog using writefreely. The above link is for the same. we want to build awareness about privacy issues and being safe on the internet while being able to have a place where they can put up their thoughts, and if need be use it as their collection of works.

all that is nice to think about and i would say we jumped in without much thought given as well. Even though about 15 of our friends and acquaintances have joined up, not many is willing to put out their work as such. neither older work nor new. upon enquiring, some mentioned issues with formatting so we have done a markdown guide, which made some people post, but another issue arose which is at the end a new platform, and for most of us whose first language is not english, this is a daunting task. there is a perceived value of a blog being good and some of them want to present things nicely. which is understandable.

we have made that people can now start as many blogs as they want, keeping as many hidden as they can. we will deal with storage issues when it comes to it, as we plan to keep the blog local, focusing on bengali and english content.

now what we are struggling with and need guidance about is what we should do to increase awareness? we want to increase users obviously, but we also don't want non queer non creative people. we also do not have any idea of monetisation. and we honestly do not want to use community content to monetise. we can host fundraising but idk what should be the value proposition. so i am asking you all for some guidance. i just want people in my city and country to be more aware and carve out their own place.