I’m thinking of starting a blog to document a new project, having not blogged at all in probably about ten years at this point.
Was hoping someone who has already researched this stuff might be able to save me some time and give a tldr of the Fediverse-friendly platform options and their various pros and cons?
I know obviously WordPress has ActivityPub now, but am not sure exactly how well it works or how integrated it really is. Then there’s something called WriteFreely? Any others? Which do you prefer and why?
Really appreciate any pointers on this, and if this thread doesn’t turn up anything useful I promise to come back and do my own writeup after finding out the answers by myself.
Cheers!
wordpress, and especially its plugins, is definitely still exploited, and targeted–heavily. mod_security works overtime here just from attempts to get at exploits in them. i don’t even have a wordpress install, but that doesn’t stop the tries–about half of all ‘visitors’ to my http servers are bots looking for one to exploit.
if you’re gonna wordpress, using them (their service, at wordpress.com) as your host is the best option, i think. let them deal with maintaining the server, software, security and stuff.