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What do people use to start a blog nowadays? (kbin.social)
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Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want a platform with ActivityPub integration (i.e. it's part of the Fediverse), then there are several options:

There's also WordPress, which has a free hosted tier, and can alternatively be set up on your own server. There is an ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, which can be used freely on your own server, or with the paid business plan on wordpress.com.

Another possibility would be to use a Mastodon instance that doesn't limit your character count to 500, such as Aethy (which IIRC has a limit of 1M characters per post).

If I were to start a blog again (and I have considered it), then I would probably use WriteFreely, or alternatively Aethy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks!