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Fediverse blogging? (discuss.online)
submitted 3 days ago by QualifiedKitten@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I'm dealing with some health issues at the moment, and it's getting exhausting to update everybody one by one, so I'm looking for some ideas of where to host a blog in a way that might give my friends & family a small, painfree introduction to the fediverse, or at least something that's more on the FOSS side of things. A family friend used caringbridge.org a few years ago, which looks like a not so terrible fallback option, but I figured I'd see what else is out there before making a decision. The last time I really did much blogging was probably 20 years ago on livejournal, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current options.

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[-] malfisya@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago
  • Writefreely is the established option.
  • Wordpress has activitypub plugin.
  • Mastodon (or the like) is probably good enough.
  • Wafrn is tumblr like blogging.
  • Openwrite is the new kid in the block similiar to Writefreely.
[-] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 1 day ago

@malfisya Friendica give you facebook like it used to be. Parents love it

[-] Coopr8@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago

When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?

[-] malfisya@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

what does it mean by Gemini?

I am not sure of the detail but it is alternative to http. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

[-] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago

huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

Write Freely instance maybe?

https://writefreely.org/

[-] Coopr8@kbin.earth 6 points 3 days ago

Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration. https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog https://micro.blog/

[-] julian@activitypub.space 6 points 3 days ago

Your blogging options with federation are: WordPress, Ghost, and WriteFreely

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Wordpress has fediverse integration if you want to run something.you need a domain but you can use something like Oracle free tier to host it. Not sure of a public one though.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah but we don't like wordpress after Matt went full CEO and sued/banned wpengine.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

If it's just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.

this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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