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My blog is currently running on Ghost 1.0 I'm blogging for almost 20 years, started with blogger.com I think, eventually migrated to self-hosted Ghost when it was pretty new and lightweight. I can host anything that runs on Linux, I can even use Docker.

I don't want to migrate to the latest Ghost version because it feels very enterprisey now, needs a lot of resources on the server and uses a complex data format instead of Markdown. I don't need monetization either.

My requirements are:

  • possible to migrate ~30-40 Markdown posts + embedded images from Ghost 1.0
  • future proof, i.e. simple data format so I don't get locked in
  • low RAM/CPU usage
  • easy maintenance, creating posts, backups, etc
  • RSS support

I'll be very grateful for any suggestions.

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[โ€“] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bear blog was open source under the MIT license, and then they changed to a copyleft license in 2025. What I didnt realize is they dont have any selfhosting tooling or documentation which is a shame

Looks like im gonna have to go with mataroa like I originally planned and write some custom css to inject

[โ€“] simon574@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, interesting! I was wrong about bear blog not being open-source, thank you for the correction! So it would be possible to self-host, it's just not officially supported. mataroa looks interesting as well, maybe even more minimalistic than bear blog.