I’m dealing with some health issues at the moment, and it’s getting exhausting to update everybody one by one, so I’m looking for some ideas of where to host a blog in a way that might give my friends & family a small, painfree introduction to the fediverse, or at least something that’s more on the FOSS side of things. A family friend used caringbridge.org a few years ago, which looks like a not so terrible fallback option, but I figured I’d see what else is out there before making a decision. The last time I really did much blogging was probably 20 years ago on livejournal, so I’m pretty out of touch with the current options.
- Writefreely is the established option.
- Wordpress has activitypub plugin.
- Mastodon (or the like) is probably good enough.
- Wafrn is tumblr like blogging.
- Openwrite is the new kid in the block similiar to Writefreely.
If it’s just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.
Wordpress has fediverse integration if you want to run something.you need a domain but you can use something like Oracle free tier to host it. Not sure of a public one though.
Yeah but we don’t like wordpress after Matt went full CEO and sued/banned wpengine.
