Hi,
I am looking for a good and lightweight blogging solution.
I imagine I can just go with a static site generator like jekyll but I’d like something else… it would be a plus if it can federate :)
Any ideas?
Thanks !
EDIT: I forgot to say that obviously wordpress does not enters in the “lightweight” category ;)
I use the parsedown library with a custom PHP index page to serve markdown files as HTML.
have you tried hubzilla? its multipurpose.
Ghost is open source, non profit and self host able.
It wants a gigabyte of RAM. Maybe that passes for lightweight in 2025, but given the fundamental things a blog has to do, I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.
I’d probably put the cutoff at less than a tenth that amount.
Not if you want federation.
The answer is probably GoToSocial, which suggests that it can run on 512MB.
Federation doesn’t inherently require large amounts of memory. Fundamentally, it’s a matter of selecting a list of unique servers (likely tens, maybe hundreds) from a larger set of followers (likely hundreds, maybe thousands) and sending an HTTP request to each when there’s a new post. There’s a speed/size tradeoff for how many to send in parallel, but it’s not a resource-intensive operation.
Growth beyond a few tens of megabytes was a bug in Writefreely, which is a likely-suitable option several comments here recommended.
