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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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[โ€“] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Huh. How did I miss that? Some of those actually look alright. Thanks!

I did look at ClassicPress too. But apparently despite broad compatibility with WordPress plugins, activitypub specifically breaks it.

[โ€“] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 6 months ago

ClassicPress is a start, I guess. My thought is more of slashing off all the extraneous bloat that has been added to WP over the last 15 years (but keeping the security updates) and make it a lean little blogging software again. But if course I don't have the skills to do that myself.