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Fediverse blogging?
I'm dealing with some health issues at the moment, and it's getting exhausting to update everybody one by one, so I'm looking for some ideas of where to host a blog in a way that might give my friends & family a small, painfree introduction to the fediverse, or at least something that's more on the FOSS side of things. A family friend used caringbridge.org a few years ago, which looks like a not so terrible fallback option, but I figured I'd see what else is out there before making a decision. The last time I really did much blogging was probably 20 years ago on livejournal, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current options.
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slazer2au
slazer2au
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Wordpress has fediverse integration if you want to run something.you need a domain but you can use something like Oracle free tier to host it. Not sure of a public one though.
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frongt
frongt
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Yeah but we don't like wordpress after Matt went full CEO and sued/banned wpengine.
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Flax
Flax
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Wordpress is free and open source
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slazer2au
slazer2au
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While the software is, the name is corporate owned and man is that guy a megacunt.
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Flax
Flax
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A lot of FOSS software has trademark... I don't think Matt was completely in the wrong either.
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slazer2au
slazer2au
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I agree he isn't in the wrong. The way he is doing it is absolutely wrong and a tool bag for doing it.
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julian
julian
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Re: Fediverse blogging?
Your blogging options with federation are: WordPress, Ghost, and WriteFreely
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solrize
solrize
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If it's just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.
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malfisya
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  • Writefreely is the established option.
  • Wordpress has activitypub plugin.
  • Mastodon (or the like) is probably good enough.
  • Wafrn is tumblr like blogging.
  • Openwrite is the new kid in the block similiar to Writefreely.

Wafrn, the social media that respects you

Wafrn is a social media inspired by tumblr that connects with the fediverse
app.wafrn.net
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Coopr8
Coopr8
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When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?
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malfisya
malfisya
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what does it mean by Gemini?


I am not sure of the detail but it is alternative to http. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(…

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Coopr8
Coopr8
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huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.
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abeorch
abeorch
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Friendica give you facebook like it used to be. Parents love it

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Coopr8
Coopr8
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Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration.
indieweb.org/Micro.blog
micro.blog/

Micro.blog

Micro.blog is a social web site & posting service started by Manton Reece with built-in support for using your own domain and other IndieWeb building-blocks, ActivityPub/Mastodon, and POSSEing to many services such as Tumblr, Medium, Flickr, and Blu…
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