I’ve long been thinking about writing some technical things I didn’t find easily on the internet down somewhere.

I don’t want to use a platform like medium as I’d like to have control over my data. I’m already selfhosting diffrent web services like a password manager (vaulwarden), audiobookshelf and more in docker behind a reverse proxy. So whatever software I decide on should have a docker image available.

It would also be rather nice if the software would play nicely with the fediverse, so from some quick searching it seems that WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin would work nicely.

It there some other software I’ve overlooked that I should also consider?

  • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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
    • usbpc@programming.devOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That seems like an interesting idea. But even if it dosen’t look like Wikipedia I don’t really like the “look and feel” of MediaWiki for what I want it to be.

      But posting it on a private lemmy instance seems like a really nice thing. As noted in another comment that is probably the route I will go for now.