[toastercat]

Sad indeed. Fortunately, there are several public instances one can join (https://writefreely.org/instances), and again, still self-hostable.

Alternatively, there is also:

https://bearblog.dev/

https://rwtxt.com/

https://dev.to/

Or of course you can use a static-site generator and host on Neocities or Github Pages, but that's less simple than the above solutions.