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!
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.
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.
Yeah, I was a long-term Hubzilla user some years back. There’s some really cool stuff that it can do, but it seems to get slower and more bloated the longer you run it.
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.
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 ).
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
https://ghost.org/ supports ActivityPub and is open-source so can be self-hosted, I don’t know if it’s a good platform for what you’re trying to do though as I don’t have personal experience with it.
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.
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.
Self hosting is often gold, yeah.
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.
Pixelfed is good and has some great artists and photographers already there. The mobile app was pretty rough a few months ago but it’s getting better quickly.
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.
For blogging, I can recommend Writefreely. Hubzilla and Friendica both have features similar to Facebook.
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).
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.
I’m not using fediverse or buying an air fryer.
Yeah!
…wait
…you’re literally on the fediverse right now?
