Federated Blogging Platforms

2024-06-05 22:16:35

sabreW4K3 via Fediverse

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al

Just trying to check and make sure I never missed any. Is it just writefreely and plume right now?

2024-06-05 22:27:08

poVoq

poVoq@slrpnk.net

Wordpress obviously.

Friendica, Hubzilla and Streams also work quite well for long-form blogs.

2024-06-06 08:27:43

sabreW4K3

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al

Thanks, this made me actually take the time to look into hubzilla finally and its my first time hearing about Streams.

2024-06-06 10:45:35

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chris@im.allmendenetz.de

@sabreW4K3

you can have all the features of Hubzilla and make it look like Writefreely

https://im.allmendenetz.de/channel/blogbasic-one

2024-06-06 03:38:26

maegul (he/they)

maegul@lemmy.ml

I keep wondering if lemmy itself could do a decent job of this, and that being native to a communities style platform is a good thing for a blogging platform on the fediverse.

2024-06-06 10:40:39

jaagruk

jaagruk@mander.xyz

Writefreely?

2024-06-06 11:10:42

AJ Sadauskas

ajsadauskas@aus.social

@sabreW4K3 Plume doesn't appear to be active, unfortunately 🥺

There's a notice on the official Join Plume website saying the former developers don't have the time to maintain it anymore. Most of the former public instances now throw up errors of various kinds.

WriteFreely ( @writefreely ) is alive and well. I was seriously toying with the idea of setting up a blog through its main instance, which is called Write.as Professional. The sticking point for me was that the official on-platform monetisation tool (Coil) appears to be dead, and doesn't support members-only posts (like Ghost).

Ghost, when federation goes live, looks like it will be the best option for my blog.

WordPress plus @pfefferle 's plugins is another great option, depending on what you want to use it for. (There's no shortage of WP plugins!)

As for Lemmy, I could see a blogging-focussed front end being created for it, in the same way FediBB put a traditional message board front end on it, but one doesn't appear to exist at present.

2024-06-06 12:28:38

palordrolap

palordrolap@kbin.run

There's also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it's any good.

2024-06-08 03:20:05

Dame

dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml

So weird that no one mentioned micro.blog Which only after Mastodon was the second platform to adopt ActivityPub.