Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!
You can host your blog on GitHub pages, some technical know-how required. But it’s free of charge, and you have complete control over what’s hosted, so you can host a plain HTML page if that’s what you want.
There are quite a few static site generators which you can use. Jekyll and Hugo are the most popular, and have quite a few themes to pick from.
I did some really basic searching and it looks like something like Yunohost might have some ActivityPub modules, and it does have some blogging modules that might work. I have not used this, so I can't say how good or bad it is, but it seemed to have potential.
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