Federated Blogging Options
Federated Blogging Options
What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.
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I think Ghost might be the best option. They just launched their beta Fediverse integration a few days ago.
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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.
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There's WriteFreely for example. There's also Plume, but looks like it's not actively maintained anymore.
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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.
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Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn't federated since Xmas?
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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.
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For me federation is working to mastodon, but I don't think comments are really out yet, but I use cactus comments for it, but that doesn't federate to mastodon, it federates to matrix. It also requires a matrix server, which was a total pita to set up.
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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)?
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Wordpress (with plugin)
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there's also plume: https://joinplu.me/
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Wordpress supports federation. Or are you looking for something else?
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