I have a Hugo blog I’m setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I’m over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there’s federation visibility as well.

So short questions

  1. This a good idea?

  2. Are there better options?

  3. is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?

  4. Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

  • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.deEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    My two cents: Hugo+HTTP-Server should perform better when confronted with all the AI crawler bots as only a static site is served. Lemmy or Pifed is diffrent in that aspect. For small blogs it shouldn’t matter (jet)…

    • nagaram@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah that’s what’s going to happen with the main blog.

      Forgejo action > static HTML site > Cloudflared tunnel

      This separate idea is to have a Lemmy instance to host pictures and federate the blogs comment system so people ideally won’t have to sign in or make an account to comment.

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    If you want fediverse support WordPress has that through plugins. Lemmy is pretty heavy on resources. Just don’t look at Wordpress’ code and you’ll be fine.

  • zewm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    This seems overly complicated. If you want to run a federated blog with comments and picture uploads why don’t you just host a Ghost instance and be done?