if anyone can point me to an indieweb-ready website and newsletter platform (or how to create one from oss tools) please do.

buttondown does indieweb well but doesn't do website good

ghost does website reasonably good but isn't particularly indieweb friendly (and has some maddening quirks)

wordpress is... wordpress

like, seriously, I never want to move back to Substack but at least it helped me get subs >.<

help me, much-rumoured friendly #indieweb community, you're my only hope

#foss

@joshua_drummond

You should look into #Nostr

@damon I did! Unfortunately, I have the coding ability of a guinea pig, so to me it seemed a bit like the Final Boss of web content solutions

@joshua_drummond You wouldn’t need to code anything just look into various Nostr apps such as https://highlighter.com/ https://blogstack.io/

@damon @joshua_drummond there's many apps you could use.

On iOS, Primal, Damus, and OpenVibe come to mind.

On Android, Primal exists as well, but I think the most used app is Amethyst, it's very good in my opinion.

If you need assistance with anything specific, I might be able to help. The "public key" thing can be confusing and off-putting for non-technical people. It definitely made me feel dumb at first, but I quickly got the hang of it after a week or two.

For me, there's not enough people there to warrant spending a ton of time there. I'm on here to talk to people and I didn't get much talking unless I was talking about Nostr itself or cryptocurrency.