I’m thinking of starting a blog to document a new project, having not blogged at all in probably about ten years at this point.

Was hoping someone who has already researched this stuff might be able to save me some time and give a tldr of the Fediverse-friendly platform options and their various pros and cons?

I know obviously WordPress has ActivityPub now, but am not sure exactly how well it works or how integrated it really is. Then there’s something called WriteFreely? Any others? Which do you prefer and why?

Really appreciate any pointers on this, and if this thread doesn’t turn up anything useful I promise to come back and do my own writeup after finding out the answers by myself.

Cheers!

  • mote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This seems like maybe a resource you’re looking for as it has many, many choices in this space: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps

    I don’t blog, but this one catches my eye as an interesting platform (in that you don’t have to self host it but you can if desired): https://fediverse.blog/ (Plume is the engine, https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume)

    I do a ton of wiki work though, and one thing is cemented in my brain: data portability is a must-have. Choose a solution which has data which can be exported/imported in some standardized format - mediaWiki may be great software, but the pain of converting it’s deep markup language into something else (say, Markdown) is just painful. My workplace switched wiki software must be 3, 4 times over the years and just migrating data from one to the other (say, mediaWiki to Confluence) is just… pain and suffering.

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Brilliant first link thank you, will take some time to go through that list for sure.

      I’d heard of Plume but there’s a notice on the project homepage saying they’re no longer in active development and to consider other options instead. Understandable, but definitely a shame.

      (also, yes absolutely, making sure I can export and transfer is a big priority for me too!)

      • mote@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yah to both you and @KinNectar@kbin.run that example just caught my eye as “in the spirit of the asked question, looks cool” but I don’t have any actual knowledge about Plume (or any of the blogging options).