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

B2evolution is an industrial-strength, low-maintenance, Social CMS platform featuring: Multiple Blogs, Photo Albums, Forums, User Profiles, Private Messaging, Analytics, Email Lists and more...

This is the full featured version of Wordpress you get when you self host. Most inexpensive shared C-Panel or "Admin panel" type hosting accounts have this Wordpress script ready to install with the touch of a button.

This is the version of Wordpress you want if you want to use Indieweb.org plugins.

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.

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.

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.

Review article of 16 blogging platforms.

Create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. Dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.

This is a good place for beginners to blogging. If you really intend to keep at blogging, upgrading to using your own domain is recommended. Later, if you feel you need more features, it is easy to move from Wordpress.com to a self-hosted Wordpress or to almost any platform.