Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by hansolo@lemmy.today to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Y'all, I'm a big fan of Lemmy, and looking to get out of the walled gardens and into the fediverse as much as I can.

I'm wondering about a few things, so let me know before I go signing up for everything if I'm doing this right or what.

I'm looking for some sort of blog/html hosting site, and I think that Hubzilla is appropriate for this, but I'm not sure. Primarily, I just want some space for some webgames and assets. Nothing crazy. That might also be Codeberg (OSS, not federated AFAIK), but I'm not sure about Hubzilla since it seems to do everything. Federating from Wordpress won't work because they seem to have their direct HTML editing access locked down to the point that it's not what I need.

I understand that pixelfed is the IG parallel (I don't use IG more than seeing what my spouse and 1 friend sends me), but are there multiple options for FB replacement? Or just Friendica? I genuinely don't think I'll have any IRL friends on Friendica if I go look, but I'm not going to have to provide an ID. But hey, there's always my 500th overlapping Linux enthusiast group to join.

Thanks in advance - all advice appreciated!

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[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://ghost.org/ supports ActivityPub and is open-source so can be self-hosted, I don't know if it's a good platform for what you're trying to do though as I don't have personal experience with it.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks - I was looking at it the other day. I have a few other project ideas that might be better for Ghost and peertube, but that's a longer-term project.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AP is currently not working self-hosted.

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It does work, I have seen it working on another site. Again, I don't have personal experience but I don't see any reason to assume it doesn't work. The comments including the comment closing the issue you linked describes how to get it working. When they say it is not "supported" they mean they are not providing tech support for it, but I can't imagine it's that hard or poorly documented.