I was in exactly the same position but the route I went was a little programme on my server that reads incoming mail to a secret address and crafts a blog post from it
Messing with DNS is so fun. I did a lightning talk on storing secrets in DNS [1] for my vpn tokens and also have a URL shortener that uses DNS as its storage mechanism [2]
Disingenuous to say that mastodon.lol shut down “because of Harry Potter” when in actual fact it was a disgusting and prolonged character assassination attempt against the sole admin