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 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Personally most of my shit is still on GitHub but I'm thinking of migrating my future work to Codeberg which looks pretty nice, built on FOSS, and is community managed.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not just community managed but operated as a non-profit. Codeberg won’t be scraping your deleted history to train their LLMs that they will sell back to you unlike Microsoft.

I am still convinced Git is overrated & overly complicated—and it is a shame all of the decent forges (even basic ones) are all built around Git.

[–] marting@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@toastal @CaptainStack While I agree that git is overcomplicated in some ways, I've always found it harder to get people to try new vcs systems than to try new forges. To get them to change both at the same time would be even harder I think, and in particular would make migrating existing projects from github to elsewhere much more painful.

[–] CaptainStack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

What's better than git though? I think they only other system I've used is TFS and I didn't think it was any better.

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