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I have some downtime at the moment so I'm thinking of reviving my personal blog again. I have enough experience with managed services that I'm reasonably confident to self-host. I'm aware that WordPress / Drupal / Joomla will most likely do what I want, but they're way overkill for my needs and I don't need the extra headaches.

Currently I'm leaning towards ghost, even though activitypub is only in alpha as far as I know. Plume isn't actively maintained any more, which is a shame. WriteFreely is a great project but doesn't suit my aesthetics and doesn't support themes as far as I know. I know connecting a flat-file CMS to activitypub is possible, but seems like way more trouble than I'd like to go to.

Is there anything I've missed that I should be looking at?

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can always hook it up to a fediverse account that you can use with more complicated software. It can post it like a link and people can comment in the fediverse, but your page would be simpler because it doesn't need to support all those fancy features.