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hazelnot yell @hazelnot@sunbeam.city
2y
Can someone recommend a blogging platform? Ideally a federated one?

I talk a lot about games I play and stuff and sometimes I feel limited by the character limit here (and also some people hate it when others make long posts for some reason?), and I don't wanna use Wordpress or have the energy to set up a proper static blog.

So might as well just, have a blog where I talk about old games and stuff lol
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Dr. Mommy Kip Van Den Bos @tobi@goblin.technology
2y
@hazelnot write.as? or a self-hosted writefreely instance?

you could also, shameless plug here, install gotosocial somewhere :D but it's more microblogging than blogging, even with the large default post size limit
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hazelnot yell @hazelnot@sunbeam.city
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@tobi Hmm, I'll see where I can get with writefreely, though I have absolutely no clue how I'd make it available to anyone

I have a domain but I literally don't remember how to put things on there, I've literally only done it once, 7 years ago
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who the hell is duc? ​:enbyfied:​ ​:verifiedcat:​ @duc@miau.jeder.pl
2y
@hazelnot @tobi you do also need a vps for that, which is... not easy to set up, and also costs money :/
(same goes for gts, i do think it could be interesting as a blogging platform with a little bit of template modification tho (and possibly public timeline exposed to index, but that is lot harder than editing templates))
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hazelnot yell @hazelnot@sunbeam.city
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@duc Can't I just put it on an old laptop though? Cause that would be free 😅
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Dr. Mommy Kip Van Den Bos @tobi@goblin.technology
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@hazelnot @duc you can yes, if your ISP permits self-hosting
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hazelnot yell @hazelnot@sunbeam.city
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@tobi There are ISPs that don't? o.o
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Dr. Mommy Kip Van Den Bos @tobi@goblin.technology
2y
@hazelnot sure are, some of them don't let you open ports etc. So then you can still run on a laptop at home but you've gotta set up a wireguard tunnel or whatever to a vps, and it becomes more complicated

If you're looking to self host like that it's probs worth reading about some of the ins and outs of it before making a decision. There's also privacy concerns cuz if you self host without a vps, you have to use your actual home IP address for stuff, which is usually geographically locatable
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Dr. Mommy Kip Van Den Bos @tobi@goblin.technology
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@hazelnot just for context btw, this instance runs on a (iirc) €4 / month greenhost.net instance, which is quite reasonably priced imo
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hazelnot yell @hazelnot@sunbeam.city
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@tobi I'm broke and unemployed to I would genuinely rather expose my IP than have to pay 4 euros a month 💀
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who the hell is duc? ​:enbyfied:​ ​:verifiedcat:​ @duc@miau.jeder.pl
2y
@hazelnot maybe you could ask someone to do the reverse proxying on their server in worst case scenario. tho they'd also need to do the wireguard/zerotier/tailscale/whatever part.
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