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The self-hosted Paragraph alternative

Paragraph is a cloud website builder and publishing platform for writers to create and host sites and posts. It provides a simple editor, themes, custom domains, publishing workflows, and options for monetizing content.

Alternatives to Paragraph

WriteFreely is a clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for creating minimalist blogs and communities, with ActivityPub federation and low-resource Go deployment.

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What replacing Paragraph actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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