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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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://mov.im/ or another instance from https://join.movim.eu/

Runs the https://movim.eu/ open-source software.

Federates via XMPP.

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

Looks nice! XMPP is an interesting choice - wonder why they went with that.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Movim actually predates the creation of ActivityPub (and its precursor protocols) and back then XMPP was the popular choice, even Twitter experimented with running their service on an XMPP backend. But despite its age, Movim has kept up with the times quite well (as did XMPP in general).