I don't use it myself, but there's a federated blogging service called WriteFreely that markets itself as being very minimalist and simple.
You can self-host an instance of it, just like you can with /kbin, or you can use an instance that already exists (I think it's a few bucks a month if you don't want to post anonymously).
Not sure if federation is something that's important to you but I thought I'd throw it out there.