I am thinking about setting up a simple blog on a spare Raspberry Pi using YunoHost. I want it to be federated (of course), and it looks like my only choices are WordPress or Ghost. Are there any other lightweight CMS out there that are federated that appear on this list? Thanks.
@5teverin0 Writefreely might be a good option, it's built around being federated. It's in the social media category instead of the publishing category, but it's intended for blogs instead of microblogs.
Oh, excellent! I originally started out trying to install WriteFreely with Ngnx, but kept running into problems, so I gave up. Never thought to look in that category - thanks!
Careful, though: WriteFreely is solid, but limited.
For example, it has no comments. Like, there's no way you can interact with a WriteFreely post, at least none that the author would notice. Comments are planned, but way down the to-do list.
Also, while you can embed images, you have to host them externally and then hotlink them. I think this is one of the next things that WriteFreely will tackle. It's possible; Plume has its own built-in image hoster, but Plume is so underdeveloped that its devs recommend WriteFreely instead.
I get that blog is Tumblr-like and microblog is Twitter-like, but what are the actual differences?
@5teverin0 @SharkAttak The lines kinda blur in some places, but mostly just no max post length, text formatting, and a layout that more resembles a blog as apposed to a twitter profile (tags/categories, about page, that sort of stuff). You also usually get a domain or sub domain (example.com or user.example.com respectively) instead of just a handle (e.g. example.com/@user) so that it's easier to use as an independent website.
Microblog is Twitter-like, normally plain-text only, normally limited in characters, no titles, no summaries because unnecessary for not even 1,000 characters per post. Also, conversations/threads consist of posts, posts and more posts that are loosely connected via mentions.
Blog is like WordPress or Blogger or Medium. With titles, with summaries, no character limits and the whole shebang of formatting.
Headlines
in
multiple
levels,
bold type, italics,
code,images embedded in-line within the post (with text above the image and more text below the image), nicely embedded links instead of URLs in plain sight and so on. Also, conversations consist of exactly one (1) post, and replies are comments that aren't posts and work differently from posts.
Federation protocol is pretty simple and coding it could be a fun project for someone. Do you have software that you'd like to use? It seems like a good companion to a static site generator.
I'm not seeing WriteFreely in that list so maybe won't help you, but it's a lot more activitypub-native than WP or Ghost is, so might be what you're after even if the install won't be one-click in whatever you're using.