Post #57249

2025-12-12 18:12 UTC

So, given WP is willing to sell all its users down the river for some quick "AI" buzz, what fedi-enabled alternatives exist for human-centric websites? https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-ai-team-outlines-vision-for-ai-as-a-fundamental-part-of-wordpress I know of write.as, plume. They're to ascetic to match the brief. ClassicPress could be an option, provided the WP-ActivityPub add-on works with that. #wordpress #ActivityPub #CMS #noAI #fediverse cc @davidgerard@circumstances.run

Replies (11)

@haverholm@radikal.social 2026-01-20 12:12

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

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@albinanigans@blackqueer.life 2025-12-12 18:53

@haverholm Used ClassicPress for awhile, enjoyed it! I eventually moved over to Ghost, though. No real reason other than shifting preferences. https://ghost.org/

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@woe2you@toot.wales 2025-12-12 19:06

@haverholm @davidgerard Classicpress was pretty decent last time I tried it. As a bonus you also get to avoid the godawful block editor with its mystery meat interface.

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@elfin@mstdn.social 2025-12-12 19:10

@haverholm @davidgerard Drupal, BackdropCMS (I run backdrop which is forked Drupal 7), $diety help me Joomla, Grav, Concrete, Here's a list ... https://www.opensourcecms.com/

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@zygmyd@toot.cat 2025-12-12 19:17

@haverholm Write HTML. HTML is still there. You don't need anything other than HTML to get started for a link-clicky formatted website. Heck, you could even upload .txt files and use direct urls if you felt like it.

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@jargoggles@kolektiva.social 2025-12-12 21:48

@haverholm @davidgerard "What if, from the end-user to the plugin developer, they could take for granted that there’s an AI model accessible to me by virtue of being in WordPress?" he writes. "What kinds of things would people use it for? What amazing things would people create that are built on the reliable presence of a capable LLM?" These are great questions that they should find answers to before trying to launch this shit.

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@julian@activitypub.space 2025-12-13 00:32

@haverholm@radikal.social how about Ghost?

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@independentpen@mas.to 2025-12-13 05:06

@haverholm @davidgerard nobody asked for Gutenberg and nobody asked for this

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@dalereardon@mastodon.social 2025-12-13 05:47

@haverholm @davidgerard ClassicPress, the fork of WP, doesn't have all these AI features

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@nspsegal@mastodon.social 2025-12-13 07:33

@haverholm I'm glad you asked because I was wondering the same thing. Yesterday I posted about how infuriating it was to spend hours doing normal tasks and after I finally got a blog post up, Wordpress sent me a questionnaire asking how they could improve it. I told them to get rid of AI and read Ed Zitron and Cory Doctorow. Or I suggested they offer the old non-AI version as a option. Here's something I wrote about AI: proustsaidthat.blog/2025/05/11the-microsoft-doom-loop/

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@miketorr@mastodon.art 2025-12-15 11:36

@haverholm @davidgerard@circumstances.run Any advice on exporting Wordpress sites to an open format of some sort? I understand the "export all" function generates XML files, but how easy is it to retrieve everything from those after choosing some alternative platform? I have a small number of blog posts and some of them are precious so I've no desire to start afresh. Obviously I have the text (in Scrivener) but it's mostly about images and formatting.

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