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Lightweight FOSS CMS with ActivityPub support? (self.selfhost)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Strayce to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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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 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's an rss to activitypub adapter. Unless you want comments on your entries.

[–] Strayce 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good point! I just checked and apparently there's several. Yet another rabbit hole to look into.

EDIT: Yeah, I looked into it, there's actually only a few. rss2ap doesn't support mastodon, which is kind of a deal breaker. Mastofeeder wants its own DNS to run locally, I can't see their proxied feeds from my instance, and some sites just straight up don't work. rss-to-activitypub seems fairly robust, but really wants its own mastodon instance and hasn't been touched in four years.

Good suggestion but all of that seems like more hassle than I'm prepared to deal with.

[–] 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.