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Lemmy/Piefed instance as Blog forum? (startrek.website)
submitted 4 months ago by nagaram@startrek.website 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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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 4 months ago

If you want fediverse support WordPress has that through plugins. Lemmy is pretty heavy on resources. Just don't look at Wordpress' code and you'll be fine.

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