3d ago

Is there a "macroblogging" platform on the Fediverse?

There seems to be a lot of microblogging going around, but I want a place to put my writings that are much bigger. I know that having my own website is also an option, but I'm finding filtering ethical hosting providers and website builders to be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, and I'm afraid that even if I find them, it's going to be too expensive.

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Fediverse Report writes in today's edition that the NodeBB, WordPress ActivityPub plugin, WriteFreely and Ghost developers "recognise themselves as the ‘longform’ people."

Not counting WordPress, that I really (really!!!) dislike (just because; your mileage may vary), I would say that Writefreely is the closest to traditional blog platform with activitypub baked in.
You can try it on https://writefreely.org/instances

Have a look for Friendica or Hubzilla.

Wordpress has an ActivityPub plugin to federate your content with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, and others, and will push their comments back to you.
- Would you recommend WordPress as a hosting service? I'm not able to understand the structure of it all to figure out if it:'s ethical and what with the recent fights with WP Engine and stuff, I'm unsure how it all actually works.
  
  enhance is fire because its easy to connect multiple servers so you can buy the cheapest deals you find, then migration is easy and backups work well, are automated and easy. Next update this week or next week will make the backuprole installation easy, for now it requires having some unmounted volume (which is easy to setup at hetzner but id just wait 2 weeks for that)
  
  any cheap vps, I like racknerd newyear deal 60$ a year for 4 core 6gb and 160gb ssd is solid, then grab any free panel like cloudpanel and follow the short tutorial to install, now you have an easy way to install wordpress and manage domains (I prefer enhance for wordpress but its 5$ a month up to 30 sites unlimited servers then price increases)
  
  Not as a hosting service, no. But at wordpress.org you can download the software and install it on any web server. A lot of web hosting companies offer a 1-click process of setting up wordpress on their servers, too.
  
  wordpress.com, the hosted wp service, is a pretty solid. still comes with matt, though, but that drama doesn't really affect you as a wp.com user.
  anyone who comes to me about hosting wordpress, i send there. i don't wanna deal with it, nor do i really want that hackerbot magnet on my boxes.
  
  Honestly I’d not recommend Wordpress at all. It’s quite outdated and therefore a pain in the ass to extend. There are more modern solutions like Craft CMS, Kirby CMS or Laravel with Filament, though ActivityPub support might differ depending on the platform.

WriteFreely

Ghost has been working on adding activitypub support. They just added the ability to "unfollow" in their work in progress implementation, for example.