Hey Lemmy - I'm trying to migrate my life as much as possible into open source tech and platforms. Fediverse networks like Mastodon and Pixelfed have provided good enough alternatives to their counterparts in Twitter and Instagram.

Is there such an equivalent for bloggers? I'm hoping to find a platform which is open source and supports self hosting but one that also provides a first-party instance that folks like me can make an account on and start publishing.

Effectively I'm looking for something that would provide a user experience similar to Medium or Substack but which wouldn't lock me or the community into it. Something based on ActivityPub would be ideal.

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[–] CaptainStack@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Not a bad suggestion but I'd consider that a pretty big compromise from what I'm looking for. Lemmy is designed as a content aggregator and I'd love a blog platform that makes it easy to post to Lemmy.

But I the what platforms like Medium and Substack do is they allow authors to build a following which allows the platform to build a community. I think Lemmy is just not what readers looking for publications to follow and really dive into the current are looking for.

What I'd like is something that you could put next to the homepage of Vox or the Associated Press, or ProPublica and feel like it looks just as much the part.