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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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 333d
Write Freely instance maybe?
https://writefreely.org/
malfisya@piefed.social · 9 pts · 333d
Coopr8@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 333d
When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?
malfisya@piefed.social · 2 pts · 332d
I am not sure of the detail but it is alternative to http. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
Coopr8@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 332d
huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es · 1 pts · 331d
@malfisya Friendica give you facebook like it used to be. Parents love it
julian@activitypub.space · 6 pts · 333d
Your blogging options with federation are: WordPress, Ghost, and WriteFreely
Coopr8@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 333d
Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration. https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog https://micro.blog/
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 333d
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.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 333d
Yeah but we don't like wordpress after Matt went full CEO and sued/banned wpengine.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 333d
Wordpress is free and open source
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
While the software is, the name is corporate owned and man is that guy a megacunt.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 333d
A lot of FOSS software has trademark... I don't think Matt was completely in the wrong either.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
I agree he isn't in the wrong. The way he is doing it is absolutely wrong and a tool bag for doing it.
solrize@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 333d
If it's just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.