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Part of me hates myself for asking this. You clearly put a lot of effort into this.

Why? There are at least a couple actual blogging options with ActivityPub support. Why try to force Lemmy into something it isn’t.

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kernelle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t worry its a good question:

Hosting just a single page is incredibly easy, hosting and maintaining a federated instance is not

It’s just about as barebones as it gets, all the heavy lifting is done by and on the Lemmy instance

Set and forget

The content is interacted with by the federation, who are probably not even be aware of the blog
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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because those AP platforms don’t format properly for Lemmy.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hosting a static website is much much much easier and cheaper than hosting something with a backend like wordpress. A static website is essentially just an html file being served over a fileserver on port 80. I’ve seen people host them on top of a Minecraft server

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do you mean like Wordpress? The upselling and throttling alone. I haven’t used it in years, maybe it’s better?

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Upselling and throttling?
  
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  - pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You know, like any “free” app does. Wordpress can throttle who can see you as well. Unless you’re on world or similar, it’s pretty open on Lemmy.
    
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    Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What do you mean “throttle who can see you”. Lemmy is free like wordpress, as well
    
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- VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can host your own WordPress. It’s open-source software.
  
  And there’s hundreds of hosts who provide WordPress as a software so, while they upsell/can throttle, make money off you providing hosting services, not because you’re using WordPress.
  
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