It doesn’t need to be algorithmic - like Lemmy and Mastodon and Pixelfed all let people follow, like, comment, up vote without algorithmically promoting content.

Personally most of my shit is still on GitHub but I’m thinking of migrating my future work to Codeberg which looks pretty nice, built on FOSS, and is community managed.

A lot of folks recommending Ghost/WordPress I think are not understanding that a huge part of what I’m hoping to find is an active community of readers and writers that I may contribute to - I’m not looking to build a new destination site.

When you sign up on Medium.com you’re effectively given a free blog, but the real value they offer is that when you publish people who are on Medium.com who have never heard of you or your blog are recommended to read your articles. Every writer and reader on the platform is contributing to building a bigger network which makes it more valuable to everyone on it.

Looks nice! XMPP is an interesting choice - wonder why they went with that.

GitHub isn’t open source and I’m hoping for something that wouldn’t require git. Something your mom could make an account on and easily use would be ideal.

Yes WordPress and Ghost would be great options if I wanted to host my own blog but I’m really looking for something I can just sign up for and start posting. Certainly something like that could be built on WordPress or Ghost but I’m not aware of any active instances that subject-agnostic platforms that are open to anyone to sign up and start reading, following, and posting content/authors.