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@Veritas Ohhh a wordpress like program you can easily install on any php web hosting provider for personal use, I don't know why so many #fediverse software (#mastodon, #pleroma, #misskey, #lemmy) missed the mark and went with ruby elixir and the like, I bet those are the languages devs are familiar with
I am confident many software could be refactored into php code (friendica and hubzilla already exist) and it could really help speed up growth and make some people feel in control of their data.
There already exists a WordPress plugin. There is software written PHP like pixelfed, friemdica, and kbin.
@heckler @Veritas
That is interesting.
Are there a lot of hosting providers out there that only support PHP?
@reiver @Veritas
website hosting plans are the cheapest, and easiest to manage , many hosts include hostinger, dreamhost, digital ocean , 1&1, ovh .... (even though their basic plans could limit a social media software's functionalities)
non techy people can easly host, maintain, and tweaks their wordpress or drupal websites.
hosting on VPS and dedicated servers is reserved to the very few technicaly savy and trained people. + they are more expensive to run.
@heckler @reiver @Veritas There's a Fediverse plugin for WordPress. It's currently limited to following and commenting but WordPress wants to improve it.
idk about wordpress but there is WriteFreely. Which is like medium for the fedi, if that counts
@altair222 I mentioned wordpress because of its ease of use and installation, writefreely is written in go, you will need a VPS for that.
I wish for a pleroma or mastodom server easily deployable on php LAMP stack.