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Why not use https://prose.sh ? It doesn't have AP though.
That is pants-on-head insane and I love it
Since I joined Lemmy a couple months back, one of the ideas I saw mentioned by the Lemmy people for blogging is this: start a Community and make yourself the only poster. You can invite people to be co-posters.
Yes, it has the limits of Lemmy posting. No making your own HTML or fancy backgrounds. But so far as -text- is concerned, the sky's the limit.
I thought about this, but without hosting my own instance it could be kind of annoying to export and backup.
Also considered a dedicated Mastodon account somewhere with a decent character limit, but I'm not sure what form their content export takes and whether it would be usable as a backup, more research needed there.
Thanks for the suggestion!
could be kind of annoying to export and backup.
True that. Altho, if I were doing a blog, it'd be from stuff I wrote and then posted. (As for comments, how many are worth saving? Present company excepted of course.)
I thought about it too, but I really like HTML and CSS, and prefer a place I can use them. (I'd get interested if I could put anything I want inside a styled ..., but sadly few places accomodate that. What they're worried about I'm uncertain. I'm HOPING that such sites will arise in the Fediverse.)
For backup and export, Lemmy does support RSS
Fair point!
I've been hearing a lot about https://micro.blog recently. I haven't tried it, or blogged in a long time.
AFAIK it supports ActivityPub.
I also found a post in one micro.blog with a few of alternatives:
TL;DR: Tumblr / Ghost / Blot / Mastodon / Write.as / Jekyll
https://book.micro.blog/alternative-platforms/
EDIT: Manton Reece is the founder and lead developer of micro.blog
@Crul@lemm.ee @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee neat, I never realized that micro.blog could federate itself in addition to crossposting to mastodon.
Thanks! Checking it out now
I also have tried this rather minimalist jotting site called thoughts.page a while back. Moreso a personal repository of rambling, quick thoughts than one alike Tumblr or Cohost, yet it's generally seamless, most of the time.
WordPress is an option, so is writefreely, but so is just using a normal activitypub compatible platform and just increase your maximum character limit.
One thing with wordpress, make sure that you test it. I had one plug-in installed, and it claimed to be federating okay, but then I subscribed to my own feed and there was just nothing.
I myself haven't done any major blogging in a while (Last year I started one and just used Hugo as a static-site-generator so no ActivityPub integration, but also ended up not really posting much), but from what I've always heard about WordPress the major "selling" point would be its vast ecosystem of plugins and themes.
But that ecosystem is a double-edged sword, because there is tons of malware for WordPress that comes in the form of plugins (I know WP itself used to be exploited a lot in the past, not sure what its reputation on its own codebase is these days).
I've not ever seen WriteFreely before, but I doubt its ecosystem is anywhere the size of WP. Whether that's a roadblocker is of course only a decision you can make.
I'm sorry that I didn't have much more to offer as an answer, but hopefully it's something at least!
wordpress, and especially its plugins, is definitely still exploited, and targeted--heavily. mod_security works overtime here just from attempts to get at exploits in them. i don't even have a wordpress install, but that doesn't stop the tries--about half of all 'visitors' to my http servers are bots looking for one to exploit.
if you're gonna wordpress, using them (their service, at wordpress.com) as your host is the best option, i think. let them deal with maintaining the server, software, security and stuff.
the one thing that could hinder adoption of writeFreely for blogging is the lack of interactivity. Sure you can share via activitypub your posts but that was all you can do with it.
No worries, appreciate the reply! I actually used to work as a WP developer so am fine setting that up if it ends up being the best option. But it's been a while, so I just have no idea if it is.
One thing I've turned up so far is that WriteFreely doesn't seem to have any kind of commenting, so that's a big downside for a blog.
Hoping these aren't the only two possibilities!
I kinda like the markdown format paired with something like gitbook
Considered a gemini blog?
Never heard of it and a search is just turning up crypto stuff, which is presumably not what you mean. Any chance of a link?
https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
It's a bit different, and good for it
Thanks! Swear I tried to find it, but there are apparently lots of things called Gemini out there ๐
Gemini seems to be lighter version of HTTP and HTML for creating lightweight pages to view. I've seen some examples in the past.
I have used friendica for a while, It's pretty good has not character limit and RSS support, what turned me off is that it kept logging me off and i had to keep reenter the username and password (but maybe that was an instance specific problem or is already fixed).
Never happened to me. I am using the Nerdica instance.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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