@jsonbecker I’m pretty new to it, going on two years now, and also not a dev, but I’m in your camp for the most part. I have a few gripes as a newcomer, however.

​Mostly that it’s actually not that easy to get a fully functional engagement platform on a self-hosted blog. I like Micro.blog, but I want likes, I want reposts, I want article previews in the feed, I want post quotes, I want more moderation tools. I basically just want fully functional Bluesky/Mastodon from a CMS perspective, but then a Hugo blog on the back end. That doesn’t exist in a convenient format (although some services are getting close).

​I’ve spent the last several weeks migrating my blog to Ghost in anticipation of ActivityPub because it looks like it will be a more complete implementation. ​Also, Npub is looking very cool.