I thought about doing something like this, but came to the conclusion that ActivityPub doesn’t make too much sense for a traditional blog. A static site generator with RSS is cheaper, easier to host, more reliable, and a better experience for users.

If I want it on the fediverse, I can just post a link on my mastodon account/lemmy communities. If I’m extra lazy, I can automate that part.

The main issue with the AP protocol is that there’s no way to see old posts. If a new user wants to see your blog content, their server might not have recorded older articles. It’s simply not a good protocol choice for publishing that type of content (IMO)

Wordpress+AP would solve that problem, but only because wordpress remains accessible as a regular website. Unless you want to integrate e.g. a comments/like system using AP identities, I don’t think it’s worth the hassle of maintaining a stack like that.

Plus, if you are publishing content directly to the fediverse, you need to worry about how your article’s formatting will render in the various fediverse clients out there. You’ll also need to worry about actually federating with other servers, and potentially being blocked for arbitrary/technical reasons you need to debug.

…those are just my initial thoughts on this idea. I’m interested to hear opinions from others who disagree and/or are running their own AP blog. SSG + RSS still feels like the winning combo to me.

Do you want it to specifically implement ActivityPub / federation?

If not, theres a few different wiki solutions you could host

https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/GettingStarted/

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki

Did you take a look at write freely or other blogging software with native ActivityPub support?

It generally works, but comments are messy. You need to lock them down in Wordpress as otherwise spammers will use it to spam the all federated subscribers (which is much worse than regular Wordpress comment spam), but if you do that incoming comments from Mastodon seem to require manual approval in Wordpress, which is quite annoying.

Wordpress with activity pub runs fine. I use it too 🌞

I've got mine all over the place. Typically I contribute to the Gentoo Wiki, but I recently started using my Lemmy instance for that, because why not?

https://lemmy.srcfiles.zip/post/3841

In terms of self hosting though, WordPress isn't a bad option, and it's often used for this purpose "in the wild".

You mentioned that you don't like the styling of MediaWiki - it's possible to skin MediaWiki; the wiki version of that Lemmy post is hosted on a MediaWiki instance that doesn't look like Wikipedia!

Other things to consider:

• static site generators
• pandoc markdown / RST -> html workflows

In addition to the ActivityPub plugin, I would add the Friends plugin. When you have both, Friends will let you follow and respond to people via your WP site. At some point I want to make my Masto account followers-only and make my WP blog my public ActivityPub identity.

I've heard bad things about this plugin which scared me bc I'm planning to use it on 2 sites