Is there an open source blogging platform like Medium or Substack I could publish to without self-hosting? (lemmy.ml)

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Hey Lemmy - I'm trying to migrate my life as much as possible into open source tech and platforms. Fediverse networks like Mastodon and Pixelfed have provided good enough alternatives to their counterparts in Twitter and Instagram.

Is there such an equivalent for bloggers? I'm hoping to find a platform which is open source and supports self hosting but one that also provides a first-party instance that folks like me can make an account on and start publishing.

Effectively I'm looking for something that would provide a user experience similar to Medium or Substack but which wouldn't lock me or the community into it. Something based on ActivityPub would be ideal.

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin. I suspect you already know about it.

Some months ago I read about something called "Ghost" which either already has or is planning to add ActivityPub integration.

[-] CaptainStack@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Yes WordPress and Ghost would be great options if I wanted to host my own blog but I'm really looking for something I can just sign up for and start posting. Certainly something like that could be built on WordPress or Ghost but I'm not aware of any active instances that subject-agnostic platforms that are open to anyone to sign up and start reading, following, and posting content/authors.