What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.
there’s also plume: joinplu.me
Federated Blogging Options
Submitted 11 months ago by BluesDriveAmelia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Binette@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
You don’t have to self host Ghost
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did not know that. Useful.
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hosted Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Full DB-driven monster for a full bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 11 months ago
Some people use Lemmy. If you create a community and set it to moderator only mode you’ll be able to post updates as new threads that are federated without random people starting conversations outside of the posts.
RayJW@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think Ghost might be the best option. They just launcher their beta Fediverse integration a few days ago.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 11 months ago
After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
There’s WriteFreely for example. There’s also Plume, but looks like it’s not actively maintained anymore.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I wanted to try WriteFreely, but their federation seems to be broken according to this ticket. And the fediverse observer shows 0 WriteFreely comments since January 2025.
Paid_in_cheese@lemmings.world 11 months ago
I’m not sure what version they’re running on their flagship but I last posted from there on March 20th and my blog federated to Mastodon.
More for the OP but if you’re looking for a blog with a comment section, I wouldn’t recommend WriteFreely at present. Customization is also unnecessarily painful.
It does federate. Social features are rudimentary. I end up using my existing microblogs to promote the posts anyway.
I knew all that going in and chose it anyway. It’s not for everyone but it does what I need it to at a price I’m fine with.
RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 11 months ago
For me federation is working to mastodon, but I don’t think comments are really out yet, but I use cactus comments for it, but that doesn’t federate to mastodon, it federates to matrix. It also requires a matrix server, which was a total pita to set up.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Wordpress