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
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This a good idea?
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Are there better options?
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is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?
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Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host


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.