I've been wanting to have a blog/personal website on the fediverse for a while, something close to neocities and I was wondering if you know of some platforms.

I see a lot of people recommend WordPress but recently I just discovered Hubzilla which seems like a good option but I don't see anyone talk too much about it.

What's the opinion on Hubzilla? and any other ideas? thanks :)

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let’s just say that whenever some other Fediverse server software is declared “the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse”, then Hubzilla is the Leatherman Surge of the Fediverse by comparison. There’s just so much that you can do with it.

It has just about all the capabilities of a good blogging platform, up to and including its own WebDAV-enabled cloud file space that you can also use to upload images for your blog.

Sorry I don't get it. It does blogs, correct? How is that a swiss army knife on steroids?

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Some Fediverse server applications are being described as "the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse" because they have so many features, and they cover so many use-cases. They're advertised as the most fully-featured Fediverse server applications to ever exist. By people who have never heard of Hubzilla, or who count on everyone else never having heard of Hubzilla.

Still, Hubzilla blows them clean out of the water, feature-wise and use-case-wise, without even breaking a sweat.

It does do blogs. And it does Facebook. And it does shit-tons of stuff on top of that. And if you choose so, it can do even more shit-tons of stuff on top of these shit-tons.

Hubzilla offers you, all under one roof:

federated microblogging/macroblogging/long-form blogging with literally all the text formatting and then some with a character limit of over 16.7 million, with as many embedded images as you want, plus post/thread titles, plus summaries, plus local blog categories
a social networking experience like on Facebook
moderated forums (groups) with a variable and flexible level of privacy and secrecy
a built-in file space that supports subfolders, and that can be accessed via WebDAV
(optionally) fully formatted and titled, non-federated long-form articles (you can link to them in federated posts)
(optionally) webpages, formatted either in Hubzilla's extended BBcode or in Markdown or in HTML
(optionally) multiple wikis per channel with multple pages per wiki, formatted either in Hubzilla's extended BBcode or in Markdown
a federated event calendar
a CalDAV calendar server that uses the same UI as the event calendar; events in CalDAV calendars are shown among the event announcements, too
(optionally) a headless CardDAV addressbook server
(optionally) OpenStreetMap integration
(optionally) QR codes dynamically generated in messages
the second-most-advanced permissions system in the Fediverse, well over a dozen different permissions, on three levels, with seven or eight permission settings at per-channel level
one of the most advanced filter systems in the Fediverse with a channel-wide keyword blacklist, a channel-wide keyword whitelist, optional blacklist and whitelist per connection, an optional filter list that just hides messages behind content warnings, RegEx support and, for advanced use-cases, even its own filter syntax
multiple independent channels/identities (like accounts on other apps) on one account/login
nomadic identity: just about the best and most advanced identity portability in the Fediverse, even with the possibility to have one or multiple live, hot backups of your channel on other servers with near-real-time bidirectional sync that you can use just like the original if you can't use the original

Hubzilla can be your microblogging platform.

Hubzilla can be your social networking platform.

Hubzilla can be your Fediverse blog.

Hubzilla can be your non-federating blog.

Hubzilla can be your NeoCities webpage host.

Hubzilla can be your forum.

Hubzilla can be your personal wiki.

Hubzilla can be your little cloud file storage.

Hubzilla can be the DAV server that you use to sync the addressbooks and calendars on your phone and your PC.

Etc.

And Hubzilla can be any combination of the above. Like, a website with its own forum, with its own news blog, with its own wiki, with its own event calendar. All within one Hubzilla channel.

Hubzilla isn't even new. It isn't someone's recent brain-child. It has been developed for 14 years now, longer than Mastodon. And it is still under active development. That doesn't even mean small patches every few months. Rather, it means that the devs actually keep whipping up new features and/or greatly improving existing features. And that says nothing about the third-party add-ons and themes which slowly get more and more, too.