Federated Blogging Options
Federated Blogging Options
What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.
I think Ghost might be the best option. They just launched their beta Fediverse integration a few days ago.
Some people use Lemmy. If you create a community and set it to moderator only mode you'll be able to post updates as new threads that are federated without random people starting conversations outside of the posts.
There's WriteFreely for example. There's also Plume, but looks like it's not actively maintained anymore.
I wanted to try WriteFreely, but their federation seems to be broken according to this ticket. And the fediverse observer shows 0 WriteFreely comments since January 2025.
Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn't federated since Xmas?
I’m not sure what version they’re running on their flagship but I last posted from there on March 20th and my blog federated to Mastodon.
More for the OP but if you’re looking for a blog with a comment section, I wouldn’t recommend WriteFreely at present. Customization is also unnecessarily painful.
It does federate. Social features are rudimentary. I end up using my existing microblogs to promote the posts anyway.
I knew all that going in and chose it anyway. It’s not for everyone but it does what I need it to at a price I’m fine with.
For me federation is working to mastodon, but I don't think comments are really out yet, but I use cactus comments for it, but that doesn't federate to mastodon, it federates to matrix. It also requires a matrix server, which was a total pita to set up.
Wordpress supports federation. Or are you looking for something else?