Looking for free ($0) alternatives to Wordpress/Tumblr/Medium/Substack I can recommend to non-techy, non-pro people.
What it should have:
- WYSIWYG web interface - ability to upload photos and easily embed videos - ideally, basic "newsletter" (ability for people to get new posts emailed to them) functionality; or an RSS feed that can get hooked up to some kind of email service - not look like shit out of the box (this rules out, e. g., Blogspot)
@nev Just curious, what is wrong with Wordpress/Tumblr/Medium/Substack? Offering something for free usually comes with trade offs (like ads) so if that's a turnoff it could be good to know.
@Varpie Substack: publishes (as in, pays money to, not just hosts) right-wing publications that platform anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, transphobia, etc. Wordpress and Tumblr: currently under the sole control of a completely unhinged man-child techbro Medium: the least bad of them; also, IIRC, straddles that weird "trying to be a blog platform but also a publisher" line; I just personally find it very annoying
