Smolblog

Introducing

Blogging for the social web

Smolblog is currently in private beta. Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date on the project.

Why blogs?

Because social media is just blogging. Social media profiles are the account’s most recent content displayed in reverse chronological order at a dedicated place. All the extra bells and whistles distract from one simple truth: if you know how to use social media, you know how to blog.

With a blog, you’re in control. Your words, your pictures, your content shows up how you want it to. You’re not limited to a picture and a header image. You can be as regular or as irregular as you want.

Why Smolblog?

Let’s be fair, most blogging platforms offer a blank canvas… and nothing else. What social media gets right is the size. Don’t worry about writing an essay, just post a link. Post a picture. Post about eating a sandwich. Life isn’t all about big ideas and grand gestures, it’s also the little moments that add up to big things.

Smolblog makes it easy to blog, with a quick, mobile-friendly interface built around short posts. Post short text posts or pictures quickly and easily. And if you find other content around the internet, reblog it to embed it on your blog.

Meet Social Blogging

Join the Fediverse

Smolblog supports ActivityPub. This means people using Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse projects can follow a Smolblog blog without any extra work.

Reblog (almost) anything

Most websites and social media support oEmbed, an open standard for showing embeddable content. Smolblog uses this to power reblogs, allowing you to showcase others’ work on your blog while preserving attribution.

Stay in touch

Don’t lose the followers you worked hard to get! Smolblog can connect to other social media sites and cross-post your content.

Actually Open

Open Source

Smolblog is Free Software released under the Affero GPL. This helps ensure that the source code—and the right to modify, update, and run it—remains free. Some components are also released under the permissive Apache license, so even more projects can benefit from them. You can see all the code on GitHub.

Open Standards

Smolblog supports the following open standards and APIs:

Micropub

ActivityPub

IndieAuth

oEmbed

Content Credentials

RSS

JSON Feed

With more to come soon!