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!

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Honestly, it’s a tough choice. Hubzilla can theoretically do everything you want, but there’s a steep learning curve.

    One thing that might help is to narrow down what kind of features you want. What I’m seeing so far from your description is:

    • Blog / HTML hosting site
    • space for webgames and assets
    • code?
    • Something like Facebook?

    Friendica and Hubzilla] (and everything derived from them) are theoretically right up your alley, but each interface is kind of janky and introduces a learning curve of some kind. Misskey is extremely good, and often feels like the most polished option for long-form stuff. You’re kind of limited on clients, though, as most mobile apps use the Mastodon API. Some Misskey forks add support for it, though.

    I know you said you didn’t like WordPress, and I get it. However, the actual ActivityPub integration is really really good, and continues to improve. If you self-host WordPress, there’s hypothetically enough extensibility there to build everything you want. However, WordPress as a platform can be extremely janky. We tried doing it for We Distribute, and there’s a bunch of stuff under the hood that doesn’t quite work right with Fediverse integration. Then again, we’ve been doing a lot of experimental stuff over the years, so it might be different with a fresh install.