Your choice was not exaggerated, but plain wrong. Trump is censoring universities right now in the so called democratic first world.

Ghost is a CMS. It spits HTML.

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.

It’s not serverless, of course. Each peer is a server and the peer that created the “sub” have control to be able to moderate things. You have to maintain your peer always online, because it’s a server. Traffic happens over IPFS, which is sloooooow.

ActivityPub is not perfect, but this is just a channer wanting some freeze prach space he can control.

Not federated

Writefreely is alive. Plume not.

If you don’t have strong privacy concerns, you can use the free tier vps from oracle cloud or Google cloud. They are small, but are more than enough for this load.

Reading the white paper you find the “serverless” has servers. Each community needs to be always online to serve captchas to posters. The system is federated on community level, instead of instance level, and uses DHT instead of DNS.

Some people report less server load with Piefed.