Comment on How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up

Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• kernelle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because those AP platforms don’t format properly for Lemmy.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Upselling and throttling?

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What do you mean “throttle who can see you”. Lemmy is free like wordpress, as well

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