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Fediverse blogging? (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I'm dealing with some health issues at the moment, and it's getting exhausting to update everybody one by one, so I'm looking for some ideas of where to host a blog in a way that might give my friends & family a small, painfree introduction to the fediverse, or at least something that's more on the FOSS side of things. A family friend used caringbridge.org a few years ago, which looks like a not so terrible fallback option, but I figured I'd see what else is out there before making a decision. The last time I really did much blogging was probably 20 years ago on livejournal, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current options.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago

Write Freely instance maybe?

https://writefreely.org/

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
    • Writefreely is the established option.
    • Wordpress has activitypub plugin.
    • Mastodon (or the like) is probably good enough.
    • Wafrn is tumblr like blogging.
    • Openwrite is the new kid in the block similiar to Writefreely.
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wordpress has fediverse integration if you want to run something.you need a domain but you can use something like Oracle free tier to host it. Not sure of a public one though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah but we don't like wordpress after Matt went full CEO and sued/banned wpengine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wordpress is free and open source

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While the software is, the name is corporate owned and man is that guy a megacunt.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Your blogging options with federation are: WordPress, Ghost, and WriteFreely

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration. https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog https://micro.blog/

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If it's just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.

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