Hey Lemmy - I’m trying to migrate my life as much as possible into open source tech and platforms. Fediverse networks like Mastodon and Pixelfed have provided good enough alternatives to their counterparts in Twitter and Instagram.

Is there such an equivalent for bloggers? I’m hoping to find a platform which is open source and supports self hosting but one that also provides a first-party instance that folks like me can make an account on and start publishing.

Effectively I’m looking for something that would provide a user experience similar to Medium or Substack but which wouldn’t lock me or the community into it. Something based on ActivityPub would be ideal.

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Could use GitHub pages?

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GitHub isn’t open source and I’m hoping for something that wouldn’t require git. Something your mom could make an account on and easily use would be ideal.

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GitHub isn’t open source

This needs to be repeated for those in the back that still didn’t get the memo. You do not need to use Microsoft products, especially if your goal is free, open, and/or ethical software.

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Personally most of my shit is still on GitHub but I’m thinking of migrating my future work to Codeberg which looks pretty nice, built on FOSS, and is community managed.

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