My last post was read directly (as opposed to reading through Planet feeds) a lot more than usual due to someone sharing it on lobste.rs. Presumably the people who read it that way benefited from reading it and I got a couple of unusually insightful comments from people who don’t usually comment on my blog. The lobste.rs sharing was a win for everyone.
There are a variety of plugins for social media sharing, most of which allow organisations like Facebook to track people who read your blog which is why I haven’t been using them.
Are there good ways of allowing people to easily share your blog posts which work in a reasonable way by not allowing much tracking of users unless they actually want to share content?
Yes, there are, for example the Shariff project of German computer magazine c’t at https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff Works well for me.
For most platforms, you can just use a link to enable sharing. See https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch/blob/latest/layout/share.j2.