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?
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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)...
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.
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.
Funny, I wanted to do the same thing as well, but then I gave up and explained why on the Ghost blog I created afterward : https://blog.kaki87.net/intro/
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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I basically do this with https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/
It's fine, I didn't really check out alternatives or real blog platforms though lol. It doesn't use many resources since it isn't subscribed to any remote communities. I can share resource usage numbers when I get home but it's really low, barely uses CPU, the backup zip files are like 60MB
edit: cpu is like below 1%, ram is maybe like 500MB used total? and the backup zip file is 55MB
edit 2: docker stats
| NAME | CPU % | MEM USAGE / LIMIT | MEM % | NET I/O | BLOCK I/O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lemmy_proxy_1 | 0.00% | 9.078MiB / 7.57GiB | 0.12% | 2.42GB / 1.16GB | 532kB / 12.3kB |
| lemmy_lemmy-ui_1 | 0.00% | 157.6MiB / 7.57GiB | 2.03% | 957MB / 1.94GB | 26.2MB / 0B |
| lemmy_lemmy_1 | 0.06% | 193.2MiB / 7.57GiB | 2.49% | 7.36GB / 2.86GB | 5.26MB / 0B |
| lemmy_postfix_1 | 0.00% | 6.129MiB / 7.57GiB | 0.08% | 80kB / 126B | 1.87MB / 77.8kB |
| lemmy_postgres_1 | 0.02% | 578.9MiB / 1.465GiB | 38.59% | 1.57GB / 6.9GB | 98.8MB / 992MB |
| lemmy_pictrs_1 | 0.18% | 31.53MiB / 690MiB | 4.57% | 2.73MB / 178MB | 61.2MB / 1.5GB |
PieFed is fairly straightforward if you already know sysadmin basics or have Yunohost. - https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL-docker.md
But for blogging only, you'll find Ghost or Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin federate with Mastodon better, which is a bigger audience.
That's a good idea but you don't need a full instance, only a community in which you are the sole admin. Start with that, do backups, and evolve from that if you feel too cramped