@coop I mentioned write.as in my toot; @writefreely is of course the software running that site (and others). Thanks for the correction

I called them 'ascetic', because WP and its host of themes seem more accommodating for image content and customisation. But the writefreelies may still be a viable alternative, with some extra work.

And another vote for Ghost. Will give that a more serious look, too.

@davidgerard

@albinanigans Ah, good to know that's an option Thanks!

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

@haverholm @davidgerard I have problems with the later Drupals ... that's why we forked D7 into backdrop. Also I don't like installing stuff with composer because I'm lazy. D11 is a no-go for me. D9-D10 are OK (still composer.

Drupal is rather friendly with WP data. Importing is trivial.

But Drupal is programmatically The UNIX Way which gives a good module ecosystem, and comes with the highest learning curve in CMS Land.

@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.

@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

@haverholm@radikal.social how about Ghost?

@manualdousuario @haverholm @davidgerard Anyone have a link to a good noob guide to options for posting from a WP install to a mastodon account... like a way to make a dedicated category that perhaps doesn't get included in the home page or rss feed (can do that with functions.php already)?

Or, does anyone have a self-hostable masto version, that can work within the scale of resource use of WP, perhaps with no global feed, just for a single user to read and post?

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

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

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

@haverholm @manualdousuario @davidgerard Yes, it contains people who don't like the new WP direction (and are talking about alternate fediverse WP posting bridges). I'm still on 4.x and probably going to migrate to ClassicPress, because Gutenberg is a flaming bag of excrement. Hence why asking.

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

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

@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/

@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.

@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 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

@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.

@julian @haverholm
Hubzilla is an option, too.