Let's Talk About Hosted Blogs

Introduction Going to make a bet that you didn’t know that I was gone, and really, you don’t give a bleep. And you know what? That is perfectly fine. In fact, I’m happy if no one missed me. Want to know where I went? No? Well, okay… But I’m going to talk about it anyway. I was in the process of migrating web hosts. Oh, so now you are interested? Okay, so, I think it’s fair that we talk about hosted blogs for a bit. But not just any hosted blogs, ones that are specifically more Fediverse native or adjacent. Blogs We’re Not Talking About Of course, there are some juggernaut blogs that have been out there for years. And, some of those blogs have adapted to the Fediverse. What do I mean by adapted? Well, the biggest name that comes to mind is WordPress. They started offering Fediverse integration a few years back. Automattic went so far as to hire the author of the first working ActivtyPub plugin for WordPress in order to integrate support for ActivityPub more tightly into their platform.…