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.

Someone else recommended Lemmy which like Mastodon would technically allow me to make text-based posts, but I think both fall very short of what a proper blogging platform would offer. I mean, I don’t think Mastodon even supports bold text.

Good articles have formatting, they have embedded images, they have citations, etc. A good publication has featured articles, they have topics and dropdown menus, they let you filter by author, etc.

What made Medium so great was that even though it was an open blogging platform, it made your work look so nice it felt like you got your writing featured in a real online publication like say the Huffington Post. Substack allows writers to build huge audiences and collect monthly subscriptions and make a blog that looks very personalized and legit.

Mastodon and Lemmy are more for sharing and aggregating content than managing original content.

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.

Not a bad suggestion but I’d consider that a pretty big compromise from what I’m looking for. Lemmy is designed as a content aggregator and I’d love a blog platform that makes it easy to post to Lemmy.

But I the what platforms like Medium and Substack do is they allow authors to build a following which allows the platform to build a community. I think Lemmy is just not what readers looking for publications to follow and really dive into the current are looking for.

What I’d like is something that you could put next to the homepage of Vox or the Associated Press, or ProPublica and feel like it looks just as much the part.