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I have a personal website that is just a landing page made with Carrd. I’ve been interacting on the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky so far). I would like to consolidate my public Fediverse persona, write a little bit longer form blogging, and be able to have a central spot for my pictures and posts.

I’m looking at using write.as or micro.blog on a subdomain of my personal website. What are people’s experience with these two platforms and are there other good ones?

Has anyone found a good workflow for consolidating personas? I know you can use mastodon logins on Pixelfed. Is there a scenario where I just have one server login and tie everything to that?

Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Orrrrr Friendica.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I would suggest Write.as or running your own WriteFreely install using Yunohost.

Here's mine: https://writing.socl.bz/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm currently using write.as. It's a pretty bare-bones setup when in single user mode and doesn't give the kind of list view you might expect for readers - it loads everything onto a single page. I'm considering maybe using Ghost, which is another big name in the federated blogging space. Write.as doesn't come with comments by default, but I was able to add cactus-comments, but it was a huge PITA because it requires a matrix server.

I do, however, like the minimalist UI aspect of it. You can take a look at mine here. I was also able to get around the list thing by using pinned posts, which stay at the top, so I made an about, a directory, and subscribe pages.

Write.as will post to mastodon under an account that it creates and I have myself on mastodon as a verified owner of the blog site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Ghost.org is working toward Federating. WordPress.org (self-hosted) using the ActivityPub plugin federates nicely.

But then you have to follow what Matt Mullenweg is up to!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ghost Activitypub support is still in the making unfortunately. You can selfhost ghost already and if you check out the latest version you also have AP, but they said it's not stable yet and might break. Eagerly waiting for them to finish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Personally I use Hugo and host it on Codeberg Pages, it is super fast and the templating system is a godsend. If I wanted an easier solution I would go into Bearblog

Some people recommend omg.lol too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hugo and bear blog are not Federated though right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Correct, they are not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Check out Hugo. Takes a little to setup but it's completely free. You can host for free using your GitHub and a provider, plenty of tutorials on how to do it (blanking on the providers name atm)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

using your GitHub

It's not yours, it's Microsoft's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ok you can use any of the gits if you wanted to self host.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This is a really good question. I've also been wondering why there seems to be no obvious go-to service for blogging, i.e. full-form authored text, in the same way there are for photos (Pixelfed), video (PeerTube), and of course microblogging and discussion forums like this one. Seems like an oversight.

Yes, there's WordPress. But IMO WordPress is just overkill for most use cases, with its massive database backend. Text is text, the web was designed for text and it worked before databases existed. A static site generator will generate a flat text site just fine (I've used them) but you need to host it.

Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.

Maybe you shouldn't even need to try?

I've changed my mind on this one. I used to believe in the utopian internet dream of everyone hosting their own stuff on their own domains. But managing domains and hosting are both a PITA. They require money, technical expertise (because security), and commitment (or else your site goes away). The URL of a blog article posted, say, right here is probably going to be more permanent that it would be on the average private site. And Archive.org is recording the content either way. I've come to the view that sites should be left to organisations, and individuals should do themselves a favor and just affiliate themselves to one of those sites. Against payment if appropriate.

Which leaves the question of which site?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve tried all sorts of things and have settled on using Wordpress with a rss widget which publishes my rss feed from Mastodon (it picks up certain hashtags to avoid publishing everything - eg. #blog). It publishes pics and everything. It also works with Pixelfed (maybe not Bsky). There’s probably more elegant ways to do this - and ones involving activitypub - but this one works without much effort setting up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I've done WP before just wanted to try something new. Sounds like your setup isn't too bad though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The downside is that I’ve virtually stopped writing blog posts and rely on the “microposts”. Not sure if that’s why I started a blog.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, this is kind of a left-field suggestion but what about WAFRN (app.wafrn.net) - it's the Fediverse's version of Tumblr

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

As soon as you think you know all the fediverse services out there...