I'm dealing with some health issues at the moment, and it's getting exhausting to update everybody one by one, so I'm looking for some ideas of where to host a blog in a way that might give my friends & family a small, painfree introduction to the fediverse, or at least something that's more on the FOSS side of things. A family friend used caringbridge.org a few years ago, which looks like a not so terrible fallback option, but I figured I'd see what else is out there before making a decision. The last time I really did much blogging was probably 20 years ago on livejournal, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current options.

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[–] malfisya@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Writefreely is the established option.
Wordpress has activitypub plugin.
Mastodon (or the like) is probably good enough.
Wafrn is tumblr like blogging.
Openwrite is the new kid in the block similiar to Writefreely.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 6 days ago

@malfisya Friendica give you facebook like it used to be. Parents love it

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?

[–] malfisya@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what does it mean by Gemini?

I am not sure of the detail but it is alternative to http. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.