Alternative Blogging Platforms
No mainstream platforms here. Work in progress.
Micro.blog - Themes, plugins, cross-posting to many social networks, including Mastodon and Nostr, fediserve integration (follow and be followed), clients for desktop and mobile, robust importing and exporting, microposts (untitled) and long (titled) posts, custom domain.
Cost: Starting at USD5/month.
Developer: Manton Reece
This page there.
Bearblog.dev - "A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets. Just your words". Themes, custom domain, analytics.
Cost: USD5/month.
Developer: Herman Martinus
This page there.
omg.lol - a suite of web apps as Web page, Now page, Statuslog, Weblog, Pastebin, Switchboard, Email forwarding etc.
Cost: USD20/year.
Developer: Adam Newbold
This page there.
Mataroa.blog - the "naked blogging platform". No themes, no clients, no microposts; API, exporting options, custom domain, opensource, auto-exports.
Cost: USD9/year.
Developer: Theodore Keloglou
This page there.
Silvrback - "Simple, minimalist blogging". Lost of customization options.
Cost: USD3.99/month.
Developer: Kermit Kuehn
- Listed - "Welcome to your new public journal. Listed is a free blogging platform that allows you to create a public journal published directly from your notes". Requires a Standard Notes app subscription.
Nicheless.blog - "Nicheless is a micro-blogging platform for raw, unfiltered thought". 300 words per post.
Cost: Zero
Developer: Louis Pereira
This page there.
Pika.page - "Blog Like Nobody's Watching! Pika makes blogging easy and beautiful. Hop in and start writing for yourself.". Alpha. Five theme options, no customization; no pages.
Cost: Zero
Developers: Arun, Barry, James, Matthew, Patrick, and Shawn
This page there.
Svbtle - "A publishing platform".
Cost: USD7/month.
Still active? Don't know. Edge warns that it is a dangerous site.
This page was created using iA Writer and just copied to the new post editor of each platform; no individual edits or changes.
