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[?]roman » 🌐
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

asking for a friend: what platform would you recommend for personal blogging?

they would like to avoid dependency on big tech, but need a way for non-technical person to be able to set up crossposting to mainstream social media sites, where their friends and customers are now...


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    [?]Geffrey van der Bos » 🌐
    @geffrey@id.geff.re

    @hi https://micro.blog ? https://bearblog.dev ? About the POSSE they could try setting up a bridge of some sort: https://indieweb.org/bridge

    [?]MercuryCreativeWriterScrew » 🌐
    @Mercurial@todon.nl

    @hi well I use right freely but the kind of sounds like your friend is not ready to avoid dependency on big Tech

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      [?]roman » 🌐
      @hi@romanzolotarev.com

      i can only guess, but i feel like they want to help their existing online friends and customers to migrate away from big tech eventually or find enough people to provide their services here on fediverse.

        [?]Aunty » 🌐
        @AuntyRed@aus.social

        @hi ghost (ghost.org/) is often promoted as a not shit Substack alternative

        BearBlog (bearblog.dev/) is another option for text only blogging

          [?]𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪 » 🌐
          @joel@gts.tumfatig.net

          @hi there is a WordPress as a service at OVH. Not sure if this is to be considered non-big-tech.

          https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/web-hosting/wordpress-hosting/

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          [?]roman » 🌐
          @hi@romanzolotarev.com

          wordpress sounds like overkill for their case.
          they probably would like to be able to migrate to static files later.

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            [?]𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪 » 🌐
            @joel@gts.tumfatig.net

            @hi ok. They also have "simple web hosting" that is all about using (s)FTP to upload files into an Apache subdirectory - if they’re tech-aware enough.

            Note that I have no financial interest in or relation with OVH. It is just the known simple french hosting to go when you’re a french small customer.

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            [?]Tim Chase » 🌐
            @gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            @joel

            I will caution that OVH likes to ratchet up their prices regularly, no "you're on the $N/month plan until you decide to change". I have one of my servers there and it annoys me every year when I re-up and the price has increased. 😑

            That said, they run a tight ship with reliable hardware/service, and as loathe as I am to recommend WordPress for such a simple requirement, the ease of WP's "and cross-post this to other social-media-sites" with plugins is unmatched.

            @hi

              [?]Paul Wilde :dontpanic2: :smeghead: :archlinux: :freebsd: » 🌐
              @paul@notnull.space

              @hi @joel what about something like @beasts ?

              https://www.mythic-beasts.com/

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                [?]roman » 🌐
                @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                nice! first time hearing about it

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                  [?]Paul Wilde :dontpanic2: :smeghead: :archlinux: :freebsd: » 🌐
                  @paul@notnull.space

                  @hi yeah, I only heard of them quite recently but look good!
                  I got a basic email server with them, but the web pricing doesn't seem too bad either

                  [?]darius » 🌐
                  @darius@social.linux.pizza

                  @hi Maybe writefreely or bearblog? Not sure if either of those have a way to easily crosspost, but they're the most common blogging platforms I've seen around on the fediverse.

                    [?]readbeanicecream » 🌐
                    @readbeanicecream@mastodon.social

                    @hi PageCord is nice. Just not sure about setting up crossposting.

                      [?]Gavin » 🌐
                      @gavin57@toot.wales

                      @hi I’m enjoying Micro.blog at the moment. Great for posting to other platforms, but only costs $5 a month. Really easy to get started too.

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