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Lemmy/Piefed instance as Blog forum? (startrek.website)

submitted 4 months ago by nagaram@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a Hugo blog I'm setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I'm over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there's federation visibility as well.

So short questions

This a good idea?
Are there better options?
is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?
Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

PieFed is fairly straightforward if you already know sysadmin basics or have Yunohost. - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL-docker.md

But for blogging only, you'll find Ghost or Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin federate with Mastodon better, which is a bigger audience.