What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.
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Wordpress (with plugin)
there’s also plume: https://joinplu.me/
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)?
You don’t have to self host Ghost
Did not know that. Useful.
Hosted Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin
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.
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.
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.
I think Ghost might be the best option. They just launcher their beta Fediverse integration a few days ago.
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.
It’s already available
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!
I’m telling you as someone that self-hosts it that it is available.
Hmm… interesting. I don’t understand that GitHub comment then.
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.
Did u end up making it work?
Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn’t notice.
There’s WriteFreely for example. There’s also Plume, but looks like it’s not actively maintained anymore.
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.
Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn’t federated since Xmas?
