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Lemmy/Piefed instance as Blog forum? (startrek.website)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a Hugo blog I'm setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I'm over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there's federation visibility as well.

So short questions

  1. This a good idea?

  2. Are there better options?

  3. is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?

  4. Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

My two cents: Hugo+HTTP-Server should perform better when confronted with all the AI crawler bots as only a static site is served. Lemmy or Pifed is diffrent in that aspect. For small blogs it shouldn't matter (jet)...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago

    Yeah that's what's going to happen with the main blog.

    Forgejo action > static HTML site > Cloudflared tunnel

    This separate idea is to have a Lemmy instance to host pictures and federate the blogs comment system so people ideally won't have to sign in or make an account to comment.

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