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

submitted 1 week ago by CaptainStack@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@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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[-] wholookshere 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So two things

Activity pub is federation. So you'd be publishing to anywhere. Which as I said before, ghost is actively working on. They have a weekly mailer.

If your looking for an algorithm publishing centre, your going to find open source to be lacking. Generally speaking people who are looking for open source, don't want the algorithmic feeding that your describing.

[-] CaptainStack@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

It doesn't need to be algorithmic - like Lemmy and Mastodon and Pixelfed all let people follow, like, comment, up vote without algorithmically promoting content.