Thank you! :-) I went with Planka for now. We’ll see how well it works. But I like it so far! :-D

Let us know your thoughts! I’ve been using it for years. Definitely some jank, definitely not for everyone, but again it’s been pretty good for me. And if you really want you can run your own server.

Lol that’s an absolutely fair request. Have you asked on Element github? Sounds like a Mich needed feature.

Matrix via Element works great for me personally and it’s available now. :-D

Happy to have folks on e2ee matrix. It supports calling directly and group voice and video chat rooms quite well IMO. :-)

Cory is amazing. I interviewed him on Fireside Fedi and that dude has so many well thought out points. He changed my mind on Threads coming into the Fediverse.

Link for anyone interested. https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR

https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/cory-doctorow-livestream-2025-05-13-18-59-21

This has been tried and tried again. The first time I remember seeing this was in the '90’s where a “free” dial up ISP was trying this. NetZero maybe? Didn’t work then, won’t work now. They’ll pay out so little it won’t be worth it. Don’t do it kids!

Thank YOU! :-)

Framasoft are incredible folks. I just did an interview with Booteille yesterday!

Folks can watch the interview here:

https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/wuqKuurLmzX4ooDuEjJddG

Or listen to the Fedicast here:

https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/booteille-framasoft-livestream-2025-05-27

Planka looks beautiful. I have a friend that recommended this as well. GOnna try out Planka.

Thank you for the link. Just trying to spark conversation. :-) Do you have any specific experiences with any of them that you like?

Thank you! Do you recommend one over the other? or you’ve used them both and like them both equally?

Friendica is what they want. I agree. And you can get all of your content inside Friendica and never leave. Follow mastodon folks, pixelfed folks, lemmy communities, peertube channels, etc.

That’s because it is another bubble. They’re all bubbles IMO. Since the boom of the internet they’ve all been scrambling from one fools gold rush to the next. Crypto, nft, metaverse, AI. Heel even social media that was given freely isn’t returning the expected investments and that’s why they’re all enshitiffying.

Thank you so much! It’s nice to know others agree. I’ve been so concerned with all of this, thinking I’m the only one thinking this, but I’m not. We’re ALL thinking this. And I’ve been having an absolute BLAST. Not just for myself, but doing my Fireside Fedi show and even working towards setting up my nonprofit BT Free. We’ll see where it all goes. Maybe it just us, but at least we have each other. :-) Thank you for the kind words of support. <3

I’m more just trying to get a very quick site set up. I made a super basic page ATM. I’ll revisit it later to try to make something much nicer or hire someone. Multiple folks have mentioned drupal so I’ll have to give it more of a look. Thank you for the feedback. :-)

Every little bit counts.

I’d say leave it. I don’t know about at Facebook, but lots of companies still have that data in their database. They just remove publicly facing versions or index to it. And even if they do remove it they’d have backups and wont go through every backup ever to remove your info. So you’ll always be in there. And even if for some reason they close, they’ll sell all that data to someone else. We have digital ghosts floating everywhere. Don’t give them anymore pieces of you. Just walk away and never look back IMO.

I don’t know anything about Drupal. I shall look at it. Right now to get up and running I’m thinking of just running a SSG like Pelican. Especially since the Dev is on the Fediverse. :-D

I know a silly reason to pick it, but I’m a Fedi Lover lol. :-)

Thank you for the info though. I’ll definitely look more into it. And thank you so much for the very deeply detailed response! :-)

I’m not doing a publishing platform really. And I can’t seem to get email going. I’ve tried with MailerSend and while I know I can send email, through swaks, Ghost just won’t. Someone told me it only uses MailGun, which I attempted to set up and after 2 days the DNS verification didn’t go through, even though I konw for a fact it was there. And at this point I really don’t want lock in to a specific service if that’s true.