Fediverse blogging?
from QualifiedKitten@discuss.online to fediverse@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 22:34
https://discuss.online/post/28063799

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.

#fediverse

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slazer2au@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 22:37 next collapse

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.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 02 Oct 03:19 collapse

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

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Oct 07:44 collapse

Wordpress is free and open source

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 08:46 collapse

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

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Oct 10:16 collapse

A lot of FOSS software has trademark… I don’t think Matt was completely in the wrong either.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 11:16 collapse

I agree he isn’t in the wrong. The way he is doing it is absolutely wrong and a tool bag for doing it.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 01 Oct 23:07 next collapse

Write Freely instance maybe?

writefreely.org

julian@activitypub.space on 02 Oct 00:49 next collapse

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

solrize@lemmy.ml on 02 Oct 01:10 next collapse

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

malfisya@piefed.social on 02 Oct 03:23 next collapse

  • 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.
Coopr8@kbin.earth on 02 Oct 15:19 collapse

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

malfisya@piefed.social on 03 Oct 01:02 collapse

what does it mean by Gemini?

I am not sure of the detail but it is alternative to http. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 03 Oct 06:04 collapse

huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.

Coopr8@kbin.earth on 02 Oct 07:01 collapse

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