Those who blog in the fediverse, what do you use? Writefreely is a bit too minimalist for what I want to do. Is the best alternative for me to just use wordpress with the activitypub plugin?
Just another option. If you know already or are willing to learn how to write documents in markdown format (like how lemmy supports), and learn some of infrastructure set-up and it can be between free and very cheap to have a blog on something like netlify.app, github pages or others. There are plenty of static site generators out there that can be both relatively easy and very powerful.
I currently have a private blog set up on a cloud provider that just takes markdown documents and builds those along with some templates and webpage code to create a site like this. Although I have mine hosted on a VPS with my own domain, it’s completely possible to use something like github pages, netlify.app, etc. for that. They’re both free afaik to host on, but if you want to pay for a dedicated service they are usually between 2 and 5 USD per month.
Edit: The option above isn’t activitypub software, sorry for not realizing that immediately, but it is federated in a way I suppose.
Yeah is something I’ve been keeping an eye on. I don’t even dislike WordPress, but there’s a lot of clutter on your blog unless you’re running Firefox and uBlock. That said when I look at write.freely articles, they’re just a title and text. I’ve never seen a logo, header or imbedded image and £6 a month to host maybe 3 posts a year seems excessive.
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