WriteFreely: Open source federated microblogging platform

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&gt; you can even run it on a Raspberry Pi!<p>Here in India so many of us want to do this but almost everyone is behind CGNAT. I know there are solutions that exist like cloudflare tunnels but I just wish I could host at home without any third party.

Their latest release is from 30 Jun 2021.

a dumb question,why not just leverage wordpress

It can be used for microblogging, but it&#x27;s set up well for proper blogging, and doesn&#x27;t e.g. char limit you.