Some friends have websites. I encourage them to do. But they have them only to publish contact info, opening times, and a couple of photos of their business. What would be the best fediverse platform for this? Of course being able to post/toot news every now and then, is also a good feature.

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      Yes I’ve tried them and they could be used but aren’t really made for a corporate website

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        I think the whole Fediverse isn’t made for corporate websites. I don’t want to sound too negative here. But the Fediverse is made to engage with people, have discussions and to provide a level plaing field between parties. The point of corporate websites is to push info in a top-down approach and retain strict control over your image. You have the aspect of communication in common. You want to be able to communicate with your customers. But that’s probably it. Even if they ask for support, it’s often private info and directed directly at you and other people shouldn’t be able to read their contact info etc.

        Furthermore lots of customers don’t want to engage and talk about software for example. They want to buy it and use it as a tool to do their job. Not have a community. But that depends on the exact use-case. I can’t imagine a community for pressure-washer customers. But there are also lots of examples with a healty and mutually beneficial communities around software products.

        It really depends on your use-case. If I were in your position I’d ask myself what my customers probably want or need and do that. Often that’s a static website plus a forum or something like that (and something like a blog for news). And some means to get in touch directly for support.

        A bonus of the fediverse is that it interconnects. You could choose two or more pieces if software and combine them if you don’t find one solution that fits you.

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          Yeah, I understand the logic… but what about if we break this barriers? They don’t really need a forum. Just a couple of static posts plus a microblogging would be enough. The ability of having interactions directly with the community would be a plus. I am not thinking only on solving their needs, but on proposing the fediverse as a solution to an actual problem so that we get more migrations.

          The other way around would be to use something like https://neocities.org or https://silex.me or maybe even https://codeberg.page/