A few questions comparing Vivaldi and Wordpress Blogs
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Hello! I have been thinking about starting a Vivaldi blog and I was just trying to get my head around what makes a community blog here distinct. From what I understand (and please correct me if I am wrong) -
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Vivaldi blogs are powered by WordPress but Vivaldi has modified the back end to be a bit simpler than stock word-press.
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The Activity Pub plug-in built in and easily activated and get your blog published as @[email protected].
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Your website name is username.vivaldi.net and this cannot be changed.
A few questions -
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Are the blogs on Vivaldi more private or secure than a stock WordPress blog?
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Can you move your blog out of Vivaldi if you chose to?
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Can you think of any other advantages or disadvantages?
Some background:
I'm mainly looking for something to post longer essays and posts. I'm pretty active in the Fediverse and so I'm wanting to have that linkage.
I have a WordPress blog that I have not dusted off in a while but my experience with it was more negative than positive. I found it too high powered and found myself getting lost in all the levers and pulleys, so to speak, rather than writing.
So, I am looking to blog but I wanted a more straight forward experience than I found in my past experience with WordPress.
Furthermore, I've been a little concerned with discussion of WP selling their data to AI companies. I know I might be fighting against the tide but I want to fight as long as I can.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post!
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@seanbala, regarding the privacy, I think that the Vivaldi blog don't sell data, same as in the other services hosted by Vivaldi, at least I don't find anything in the test. But it depends also on the content you put in, if you embed Videos or links which are not private.
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@seanbala, for question 2, Vivaldi blog has an export tool and it will export the blog as an XML file in WXR format. You can then import the blog to other blogging platfrom that recognize WXR format.