Short tutorial. Bridgy will give your Wordpress.com blog the ability to process webmentions.

Self-hosteable Micropub and Media endpoint for blot.im and Dropbox - am1t/blotpub

A Free Website Visitors Comment Script

A text first blogging platform.

Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside. The point of all this — the reason Blot exists — is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish.

Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. This is a fork of the Wordpress blogging script before they added the block editor. ClassicPress is aimed at bloggers who want a full featured blog script.

Editor's note: this would be my first choice for a blog if you do not want to use a block editor.

Haven puts you in complete control of what you write. You choose who gets to see it instead of trusting a big company to control who gets access on your behalf. Share pictures of your kids with family and friends. Share private thoughts with those you trust most. You're in control with no ads, and no tracking.

Publish blog posts, photos and media to your own site, and syndicate it to your social networks. Keep everything on your own site. Is said to have Indieweb capabilities built in.

Standard Notes blogging platform.

Blogging platform for minimalists. A text first weblog platform.

Micro.blog is many different things all at the same time: it is a micro blogging platform. It is a place to micro blog, it is a blog host for both micro blogging and longform blogging. It is a photo blog. It is a microcast blog host. It is also a social network that acts as a bridge between the individual blogs. All your blog posts can be moved to Wordpress. Hosting on your own domain is encouraged. Micro.blog is not free but it also does not have any advertising. (Recommended.)

As a blogging platform, this is perfect for beginners. With Micro.blog you can post to Twitter but still retain control of all your posts on the blog. You can also write long form posts just as easily and they all get recorded on your blog. Additionally, you can can move all your posts to something like WordPress should you want to. Good for beginners who don't want to be bothered with complicated stuff. Recommend always using your own domain.

Pine.blog is a free, next generation feed reader and blogging platform that makes it as quick and easy to blog as it is to post to Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

Pine.blog also supports Webmentions.

Also contains a directory of blog RSS feeds.

Very interesting.

A tiny blogging service.

Review article of 16 blogging platforms.