NodeBB

Follow-up post, a review of federated CMSes that can take over long running sites before Wordpress turns to slop.

https://kbin.earth/m/fediverse@lemmy.zip/t/2330341/Recommendations-for-federated-CMS-alternatives-to-Wordpress

cc @davidgerard @nspsegal @julian @morph @elfin

#wordpress #ActivityPub #CMS #noAI #fediverse

@julian Oh, ho ho. That's right, I forget we can't have nice things: https://lemmy.zip/comment/23379174

(Tldr, Ghost is being coded with Claude)

@nspsegal I'll join you in hoping!

@nspsegal No worries, I found it easily enough.

I've had similar issues copy/pasting recently. Don't know if it's some security sandboxing of the clipboard that's acting up?

@julian I knew vaguely of the NodeBB AP implementation, thanks for the reminder And the follow issue was easily fixed! @morph

This is my platonic ideal of a WP install file, courtesy of the Internet Archive's Wayback machine.

I wish somebody would just fork at this version, only implementing security updates between then and now.
@woe2you @davidgerard

@morph @julian They haven't federated my edit to the post, though. Now I will always be remembered as the guy who can't tell "to" from "too"

@morph I hadn't even seen the forum post version until you mentioned it. Below my toot it says "[#]activitypub shared this topic about _ hours ago", so I suppose it is in fact an automated, hashtag based aggregation? @julian

@morph Re: magic sauce — I think it's as simple as me using the ActivityPub hashtag in the original mastodon post? I can't say for certain, just a guess.

Or maybe @julian commenting pulled in the thread? Federation, guys. It's weird and wonderful.

@morph TBF most of the WP themes are bloated frameworks anyway. @julian

@morph @julian My first reaction is that Hubzilla is more slanted toward the federation part than the blog and site building focus of WP, but actually — that's not a drawback. Yeah, I'll have to give it a try.

@nspsegal Me, I dodge the bullet by using Linux and open source software. So far, LibreOffice hasn't drunk the "AI" kool aid.

Wordpress straying down that path is not a great sign of things to come, but I remain hopeful of a not entirely idiotic future.

@nspsegal Not a bad piece. I try to avoid Microsoft as much as possible, but they deliver infrastructure for my day job. It has been so depressing to follow how they just forced Copilot on *their paying customers*.

Suddenly the entire educational institution has implemented guidelines and advice on how students and staff can use "AI" in their work. Not guidelines *against* it, because it has been normalised through the software the workplace provides.

See also https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

@julian Could be. How far along is their fediverse implementation?

Also, do you have experience migrating large-ish sites from one to the other? Because I'm involved with one group blog that would need to have 15 years or so worth of posts and podcast series moved from an ancient WP install...

@nspsegal I think there's a slash missing in your URL: https://proustsaidthat.blog/2025/05/11/the-microsoft-doom-loop/ Giving it a read now.

@metaning @manualdousuario @davidgerard And I reply, again, this is not the right thread to ask.

@dalereardon And I mentioned Classicpress above, asking if it's compatible with the WP-ActivityPub add-on. @davidgerard

@metaning Read the room, please. @manualdousuario @davidgerard

@jargoggles There are also three major, unsupported assumptions in that last question:

"amazing things"
"reliable presence"
"capable LLM"

They might more realistically be replaced with "bullshit", "hallucinations", and "magic 8-ball".
@davidgerard

@manualdousuario Oh shoot, neither of us is going to change the other's mind then @davidgerard