Y’all, I’m a big fan of Lemmy, and looking to get out of the walled gardens and into the fediverse as much as I can.

I’m wondering about a few things, so let me know before I go signing up for everything if I’m doing this right or what.

I’m looking for some sort of blog/html hosting site, and I think that Hubzilla is appropriate for this, but I’m not sure. Primarily, I just want some space for some webgames and assets. Nothing crazy. That might also be Codeberg (OSS, not federated AFAIK), but I’m not sure about Hubzilla since it seems to do everything. Federating from Wordpress won’t work because they seem to have their direct HTML editing access locked down to the point that it’s not what I need.

I understand that pixelfed is the IG parallel (I don’t use IG more than seeing what my spouse and 1 friend sends me), but are there multiple options for FB replacement? Or just Friendica? I genuinely don’t think I’ll have any IRL friends on Friendica if I go look, but I’m not going to have to provide an ID. But hey, there’s always my 500th overlapping Linux enthusiast group to join.

Thanks in advance - all advice appreciated!

  • Convict45@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    19 hours ago

    I ran a Hubzilla site for a while, and first, it was a pain in the ass to get set up.

    Second, the UI is terrible.

    Third, Hubzilla seems entirely populated by cranky old men, inexplicable foreigners, and FOSS advocates who talk of nothing else.

    I shut it down.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Hahaha, I saw the same thing looking around and thought it was just me. I get enough of that on Lemmy, I don’t need to double-dip. Thanks for the head’s up.

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    Codeberg runs on Forgejo, which you can selfhost. (If you wanna try, let me know, I can create an account for you on https://forgejo.world/). It has (or will have) activitypub (federation).

    Friendica is nice, I’d say try it (https://friendica.world/), but host it yourself if you like it. Personally I use Sharkey (https://sharkey.world/) which you can use like Mastodon, but with longer posts, and you can create pages (like this one https://ruud.social/@ruud/pages/postgresql ).

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Thanks - I was looking at it the other day. I have a few other project ideas that might be better for Ghost and peertube, but that’s a longer-term project.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        It does work, I have seen it working on another site. Again, I don’t have personal experience but I don’t see any reason to assume it doesn’t work. The comments including the comment closing the issue you linked describes how to get it working. When they say it is not “supported” they mean they are not providing tech support for it, but I can’t imagine it’s that hard or poorly documented.

  • Snoopy@feddit.frEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    For an alternative to Mastodon, and maybe facebook, i recommand iceshrimp. It’s a misskey fork with markdown, 3000 chars, emojis reaction, list, gallery management…

    Two alternatives to lemmy. They have lot interresting features : mbin and piefed.

    As for pixelfed, lot users reported me some bug. I have heard of vernissage but i haven’t tested them.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      yeah, I checked it out a few months ago and it was…sparse. I’ll give it another go around. The hard part about replacing IG is that the only things I like on IG are cooking and cat related, but my spouse and 1 friend send things basically every day.

  • Tealk@rollenspiel.forumEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    For blogging, I can recommend Writefreely. Hubzilla and Friendica both have features similar to Facebook.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I don’t think you will easily find an option that lets you build free form html pages (even Hubzilla limits that quite a bit), but since everyone seems to just put out random recommendations, have another one: https://elgg.org/

    Elgg is an oldy but goody, and they recently added ActivityPub federation via an plugin (which I have not personally tried yet).

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah, and I think it’s sort of either-or with free form html and ActivityPub plugins. Which is what I expected since Wordpress isn’t an option, but I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t just assuming too much. Oh well, worth an ask at least.