I have some downtime at the moment so I’m thinking of reviving my personal blog again. I have enough experience with managed services that I’m reasonably confident to self-host. I’m aware that WordPress / Drupal / Joomla will most likely do what I want, but they’re way overkill for my needs and I don’t need the extra headaches.
Currently I’m leaning towards ghost, even though activitypub is only in alpha as far as I know. Plume isn’t actively maintained any more, which is a shame. WriteFreely is a great project but doesn’t suit my aesthetics and doesn’t support themes as far as I know. I know connecting a flat-file CMS to activitypub is possible, but seems like way more trouble than I’d like to go to.
Is there anything I’ve missed that I should be looking at?
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Good point! I just checked and apparently there’s several. Yet another rabbit hole to look into.
EDIT: Yeah, I looked into it, there’s actually only a few. rss2ap doesn’t support mastodon, which is kind of a deal breaker. Mastofeeder wants its own DNS to run locally, I can’t see their proxied feeds from my instance, and some sites just straight up don’t work. rss-to-activitypub seems fairly robust, but really wants its own mastodon instance and hasn’t been touched in four years.
Good suggestion but all of that seems like more hassle than I’m prepared to deal with.
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