Federated Blogging Options
from BluesDriveAmelia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to fediverse@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 09:03
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23979795

What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.

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QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz on 02 Apr 09:13 next collapse

There’s WriteFreely for example. There’s also Plume, but looks like it’s not actively maintained anymore.

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Apr 09:21 collapse

I wanted to try WriteFreely, but their federation seems to be broken according to this ticket. And the fediverse observer shows 0 WriteFreely comments since January 2025.

RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee on 02 Apr 12:44 next collapse

For me federation is working to mastodon, but I don’t think comments are really out yet, but I use cactus comments for it, but that doesn’t federate to mastodon, it federates to matrix. It also requires a matrix server, which was a total pita to set up.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 02 Apr 12:47 next collapse

Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn't federated since Xmas?

Paid_in_cheese@lemmings.world on 02 Apr 13:38 collapse

I’m not sure what version they’re running on their flagship but I last posted from there on March 20th and my blog federated to Mastodon.

More for the OP but if you’re looking for a blog with a comment section, I wouldn’t recommend WriteFreely at present. Customization is also unnecessarily painful.

It does federate. Social features are rudimentary. I end up using my existing microblogs to promote the posts anyway.

I knew all that going in and chose it anyway. It’s not for everyone but it does what I need it to at a price I’m fine with.

RayJW@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 09:44 next collapse

I think Ghost might be the best option. They just launched their beta Fediverse integration a few days ago.

dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de on 02 Apr 09:52 collapse

After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 02 Apr 11:10 collapse

It’s already available

E: “available” but not yet functional. Sorry.

dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de on 02 Apr 11:42 next collapse

Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn’t notice.

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Apr 12:30 collapse

Apparently not.

2 days ago from a contributor on the Ghost GitHub Issuetracker:

ActivityPub is currently not supported for self hosted setups, we’re working on getting everything working smoothly internally first before adding official support for self hosted setups!

Source

Ulrich@feddit.org on 02 Apr 12:31 collapse

I’m telling you as someone that self-hosts it that it is available.

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Apr 12:34 collapse

Hmm… interesting. I don’t understand that GitHub comment then.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 02 Apr 12:39 collapse

I should clarify, I suppose. “Available” as in you can go into the settings and turn it on. I assumed there was something wrong with my personal install when it didn’t work but I guess it’s just not finished yet. Sorry about that.

muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee on 02 Apr 13:41 collapse

Did u end up making it work?

Ulrich@feddit.org on 02 Apr 13:44 collapse

No.

FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online on 02 Apr 09:56 next collapse

Some people use Lemmy. If you create a community and set it to moderator only mode you’ll be able to post updates as new threads that are federated without random people starting conversations outside of the posts.

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 11:06 next collapse

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

Microw@lemm.ee on 02 Apr 11:08 next collapse

Hosted Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 12:28 collapse

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Apr 13:51 collapse

Eh… Wordpress isn’t that heavy. Probably not as heavy as matrix or even Mastodon. It’s a very versatile, expandable and easy to use platform which I’d strongly recommend.

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 15:36 collapse

Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 02 Apr 11:11 collapse

You don’t have to self host Ghost. They charge a very reasonable flat fee.

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 02 Apr 12:29 collapse

Did not know that. Useful.

Binette@lemmy.ml on 02 Apr 11:10 next collapse

there’s also plume: joinplu.me

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Apr 13:51 next collapse

Wordpress (with plugin)

atro_city@fedia.io on 02 Apr 16:54 collapse

Wordpress supports federation. Or are you looking for something else?