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WriteFreely
Minimal, federated blogging.
open source self-hostable WriteFreely project · ?Clean writing, ActivityPub built in, tiny to host.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Blog” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | WriteFreely project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 64 MB RAM · 0.1 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Medium |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 5,243 stars · updated 2026-08-28 · Go |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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