What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.
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Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?
Hosted Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin
Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.
there’s also plume: https://joinplu.me/
Some people use Lemmy. If you create a community and set it to moderator only mode you’ll be able to post updates as new threads that are federated without random people starting conversations outside of the posts.
There’s WriteFreely for example. There’s also Plume, but looks like it’s not actively maintained anymore.
I wanted to try WriteFreely, but their federation seems to be broken according to this ticket. And the fediverse observer shows 0 WriteFreely comments since January 2025.
I’m not sure what version they’re running on their flagship but I last posted from there on March 20th and my blog federated to Mastodon.
More for the OP but if you’re looking for a blog with a comment section, I wouldn’t recommend WriteFreely at present. Customization is also unnecessarily painful.
It does federate. Social features are rudimentary. I end up using my existing microblogs to promote the posts anyway.
I knew all that going in and chose it anyway. It’s not for everyone but it does what I need it to at a price I’m fine with.
Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn’t federated since Xmas?
After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.
