lightweight blog ?

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• Sharply4Transitive@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Check out some blogs that use quartz

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If Jekyll isn’t your jam, then Hugo probably won’t be, either.

  I have a simple workflow based on a script on my desktop called “blog”. I Cask it with “blog Some blog title” and it looks in a directory for a file named some_blog_entry.md, and if it finds it, opens it in my editor; if it doesn’t, it creates it using a template.md that has some front matter filled in by the script. When I exit the editor, the script tests the modtime and updates the changed front matter and the rsyncs the whole blog directory to my server, where Hugo picks up and regenerates the site if anything changed.

  My script is 133 lines of bash, mostly involving the file named sanitization and front matter rewriting; it’s just a big convenience function that could be three lines of typing a little thought, and a little more editing of the template.

  There’s no federation, though. I’m not sure what a “federated blog” would look like, anyway; probably something like Lemmy, where you create a community called “YourName”. What’s the value of a federated blog?

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• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like Zola. You can integrate it with Lemmy comments: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30018034

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• dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not sure how lightweight it needs to be, but I use Ghost and it’s pretty simple and basic.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ghost

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It wants a gigabyte of RAM. Maybe that passes for lightweight in 2025, but given the fundamental things a blog has to do, I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It costs like $3/mo to host it. If that’s too resource intensive then I don’t know what your limits are. Compute isn’t free—that literally breaks the laws of thermodynamics, no matter what you’re told by hosting services, and ghost does server side rendering and has a dynamic admin dashboard and can even work headless… and it costs less than $3/mo for your own personal open source cms.

      If you need something that costs less then you can just build your own I guess, but how many hours of your time is that worth when you could just be spending $3/mo

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    • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.

      Not if you want federation.

      The answer is probably GoToSocial, which suggests that it can run on 512MB.

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• whysofurious@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am not sure about how lightweight they are (but I guess more than WordPress for sure) but om the federated sode of things you have plume (joinplu.me) and writefreely (writefreely.org) that you can selfhost. Not super sure about how much you can customize them tough.

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  • estebanlm@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m liking them! even if they do not seem very alive (still, blogging itself is not the most “alive” activity around nowadays…)

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    • Cochise@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Writefreely is alive. Plume not.

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• llama@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use the parsedown library with a custom PHP index page to serve markdown files as HTML.

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good luck! I did the same recently. I wrote my own blog system, though. I can share it with you, but I’m not sure it’s the best for anyone else, there were some shortcuts taken given I did not intend to share it.

  You can check out my blog and let me know whether you want to try it: chrastecky.dev (or federated: !programming@chrastecky.dev, !3d-printing@chrastecky.dev, !gaming@chrastecky.dev).

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• rice@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is your reason to blog, for yourself? If so I run (used to run gitea) forgejo and just spam everything in issue threads on specific repositories

  this uses 150mb of ram, basically 0% cpu

  forgejo is actively working on federation, it is there not sure how done it is I don’t use it.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ghost. I see a lot of bloggers running it. I’m not a blogger and I doubt anyone would be interested in what I had to say…lol…so I don’t have experience in that area. However, Ghost seems to be the ticket for bloggers. It integrates with thousands of integrations and some really great theme templates. If I were going to start a blog, that’s what I would go with. Jeremy over at Noted.lol has a write up about it and iirc, he uses Ghost for Noted.lol itself.

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• ex_06@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In order from little to bigger:

  • any ssg like Zola or pelican
  • mataroa.blog
  • writefreely
  • ghost
  • lemmy :)

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• sk@hub.utsukta.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  have you tried hubzilla? its multipurpose.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe git+Jekyll+CD+web server?

  You could setup some automation so you just create pages via Git.

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• RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Writefreely is super light weight and minimalist in its design. It also federates with mastodon.

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• SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use fuwari

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• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would something like this interest you? Gemtext formatted to html is about as light weight as it gets. lots of automatic gemtext blog software on github that also formats and mirrors an html copy.

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I use eleventy. Similar to other static site generators.

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• 123213217362131231@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I recently considered a similar question myself and finally decided on Vercel + nest.js + sanity.io CMS template

  Of course, if your programming skills allow you to develop the functionality of the blog yourself

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  • zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whats the overrall size and resource use of this setup?

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