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I mean if no single software fits your bill, maybe go for a combination of them? Post your blog posts in a Ghost installation, your podcasts in Castopod and have your community on a NodeBB forum? The Fediverse kinda includes the idea it’s all one big network anyway. So you don’t have to squeeze everything on a single server and one CMS.

Other than that: Wordpress is open-source. You could also wait for the enshittification to happen. We’re fairly sure someone is going to fork it and maybe they’ll provide a seemless migration. So if you’re patient enough, you might be able to stick with your current setup. Just that you Wordpress will some day have a different name and developer community. These things happen all the time. I’ll just switch from Firefox to LibreWolf once I’m unhappy with Mozilla’s decisions.

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julian@activitypub.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de fwiw NodeBB ended up being such a joy to author things in that we switched away from WordPress to NodeBB as our blog. We just blog on our forum.

Now, conflicts of interest are important... I wrote NodeBB, so I am obviously pretty biased :laughing: !

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- haverholm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I was hoping for advice on the list I'd gathered, but you're not making it shorter, Julian 😄
  
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haverholm@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

maybe go for a combination of them

This is a very practical solution... until somebody (I suspect me) has to maintain three or more installs instead of one 🙂 But you're right, this could very well be a way to solve the "one size fits none" conundrum.

As for using a WP fork — the point about the ActivityPub plugin breaking compatibility with ClassicPress makes me wary of this approach. And AFAICT ClassicPress is one of the more reliable WP forks out there? In the long term, I mean.

I'm fine with switching my personal browsers if/when one or the other FF fork turns to the dark side, but I wouldn't want to hop this site between different WP forks the same way...

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes. I’m not very educated on the Worpress side of things… Kinda necessary, though, to keep compatibility with the Fediverse AND the No-AI people in my opinion. I mean that’s kind of the place for people to go if they don’t want algorithms and bots to dominate the place?!
  
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