Creation of blog system and shutting down of Lemmy and PeerTube instances

Last week I have finished creating a new blog system for this website, which has replaced the Lemmy and PeerTube instances that I have recently shut down. The blog posts from Lemmy now exist in the development category of this blog, and the videos from PeerTube exist in the videos category. The website's new blog system also includes RSS feeds for each category and for all posts in the entire blog.

In addition to these two blog categories, I have created the security category which will only include security notices about Spaceships and other tools I have created. Right now this blog is empty, and hopefully will continue to be empty.

There are a few reasons why I have shut down these instances. The main reason is that the cost of maintaining these instances (frequent checking for updates and applying those updates) outweighs the small benefits of having Fediverse instances that I infrequently use. Another reason is the large amount of resources consumed by those instances, which a static site hosting blog content doesn't require. I have no plans on shutting down the Matrix homeserver since updating it is simpler (cargo build and replace binary) and it uses much fewer resources (thanks to continuwuity, which is written in Rust).