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

  • poVoq
    14•7 months ago

    Wordpress obviously.

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

    • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      3•7 months ago

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

          • poVoq
            2•7 months ago

            I think originally it tried to be a Facebook alternative, but over time it developed into a personal cloud space of sorts. I would agree with the comparison to Nextcloud as of 5 years ago, but these days they pivoted into the enterprise space and isn’t that nice for home users any longer.

            • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
              2•7 months ago

              Does Hubzilla have CardDAV and CalDAV support? I’m using NextCloud for calendar and contacts primarily, would be interesting to try Hubzilla as a replacement if it’s feasible.

                • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
                  1•7 months ago

                  Sorry to bother you again, I was starting to look into Hubzilla and my brain started hurting, because I can’t understand how you federate contacts, calendar and file hosting. That said, I started looking into the contacts and calendar thing and this came up

                  Hubzilla and Nextcloud both offer features for managing contacts and calendars, but they cater to different needs:

                  • Hubzilla focuses on social networking and doesn’t have built-in calendar or contact management features. However, some Hubzilla servers offer integrations with third-party calendar and contact apps.
                  • Nextcloud excels at personal cloud storage, including contacts and calendars. You can store your contact information and calendar events on your own server, giving you complete control and privacy over your data.

                  Is this correct?

  • AJ Sadauskas
    6•7 months ago

    @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.

    • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      4•7 months ago

      It’s a real shame about Plume. I actually saw that notice on the Plume website, but thought as long as I can get it up and running, it can’t be so bad.

      I’ve spent the best part of this week trying to get WriteFreely up and running locally as I just want to host a couple blogs without having to agree to let LLMs harvest my musings, but alas, WriteFreely doesn’t work with Docker and the community is MIA.

      Ghost was something I was excited about but it only allows one blog per instance, so it’s not even worth getting excited about the upcoming federation implementation.

      WordPress as a company are happy to get into bed with LLMs, so I’m holding them at arms length.

      As for Lemmy, it’s far too cumbersome and not adept at blogging. But it’s an amazing link aggregator.

  • maegul (he/they)English
    3•7 months ago

    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.

    • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      4•7 months ago

      Lemmy absolutely could, but it shouldn’t. It’s a far better link aggregator than it will ever be a blog platform,

      • maegul (he/they)English
        3•7 months ago

        but it shouldn’t

        I’m curious about why you think this relatively strongly (if you don’t mind my asking)?

        • @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
          3•7 months ago

          I’m a big fan of tools made for purpose. Lemmy has some fantastic features and continues to improve, but it was never designed as a blogging platform. Even when I duplicate self text posts, it doesn’t merge. In the timeline. I like Lemmy and want to see it succeed. Though that’s not easy with the ML administration team going rogue or the overt centralization fostered on world, but neither of those are software issues.

  • palordrolap
    2•7 months ago

    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.