should buy them some beerrs.

Does GoToSocial accounts not work? Couldnt Auth. I never got the message. Tried a few times to auth.

• group name - BT Free
• matrix and/or discord - https://matrix.to/#/#btfree-space:matrix.org or https://discord.gg/suw6E3W5
• template url (see below) - https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=200&y=133&zoom=2&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fv9Jq19d.png&tw=50&tx=69&ty=69&ts=ONE_TO_ONE
• a fun fact! - BT Free is a nonprofit organization that focuses on digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting. We believe that you should be able to own your data. Let’s take the power away from Big Tech by supporting open source software and open platforms.

• group name - Fireside Fedi
• matrix and/or discord - https://matrix.to/#/#firesidefedi:matrix.org
• template url (see below) - https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=522&y=277&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fdfdf4758-4f4f-4dd6-9488-5151a24bcf4d.png%3Fformat%3Dwebp&tw=20&tx=42&ty=42&ts=ONE_TO_ONE
• a fun fact! - Started Fireside Fedi thinking no one would watch, but I’d still just have fun. Now there’s hundreds of folks watching and listening and I’ve talked to a LOT of amazing folks and so much passion, excitement, and amazing tech coming to the Fediverse.

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

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?

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.

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. :-)

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.

https://www.htmly.com/

That looks really nice! Thank you for the recommendation. Still trying to figure out what to use. :-)

Thank you! I shall look into that!

I’m a sysadmin by trade, I just don’t know the HTML and CSS stuff. :-D Thank you very much for the detail response though! That’s great for folks to find and learn! :-)

Yup, heard of them, used them very briefly. I think it’s time to give it a try again! :-D Thank you!

Oh another interesting one! I shall check into that! Thank you! :-D

Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll look into the themes! :-)

Yes! I can. I’m just TERRIBLE with Dev Stuff and not a fan either. lol But if you have recommends on how to host something like that and make it look ince, I’m all for hearing it! :-)

This is excellently well thought out post and some GREAT questions! I’ll have to go through this more. I’m definitely planning on Self Hosting via Hetzner, I expect it to be static. I don’t honestly expect much traffic, but who the hell knows. :-D I don’t think I’ll need forums as I have the Fediverse! :-D