A new home?

So all the blipfoto liquidation stuff has made me think about moving photos onto my own site. I have a flickr account, and used that for the first two years of photo a day. But I thought I'd use my hosted server site to set up a Wordpress site for it. It is at: http://edtechie.net/pics/ (still playing about with it). I transferred all of this year's photos. It's a slog to do it manually.
The thing is, I always knew this was the safest thing to do, but you don't get the community when you self host, that's why you come to specialist sites. I'm lucky in that I have a big twitter network that operates independently of Blip, but for a lot of people, this place is their community. Still, it's a company, not a human right, so was always fragile.