I'm investigating writefreely for blogging.
For the past few years, I've been satisfied with my static site blog and its loop of write, commit, push in Jekyll and I get RSS/Atom out of the box.
But I don't get Activity Pub with Jekyll. I'm trying to get out of the writing software business unless I really need to, so writing something that follows a syndication feed and turns a new post into an Activity Pub thing is not how I want to spend my days.
We had the ability to follow a RSS/Atom feed on Live Journal, and even early Facebook would let you specify your blog's RSS feed and new entries would go out to your friends' feeds so you didn't have to post to Facebook, and blissfully ignore it.
I mentioned it to the GoToSocial folks and maybe they'll implement it.
Thus trying writefreely since it has RSS and Activity Pub. I have plenty of domain names I can use, and a VPS.
I can follow this account as a fedi user from my main fedi account, I can mention fedi accounts from writefreely.
I did manage to mess up a thing. When you're setting up a writefreely instance, you run a config command which sets up your config.ini and your database. I decided to rerun the script because I wanted a different user name.
Don't Do That! At least without deleting the config and database files.
It left the database in an inconsistent state, and I could publish but not see anything and the logs were reporting that something dreadful was going on and it could not find a collection of posts to display.
I decided just to clobber the files and start over.
Other than that, it's working. Running it behind a reverse proxy (using Caddy, which just works) is simple.