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Honestly, it's a tough choice. Hubzilla can theoretically do everything you want, but there's a steep learning curve.
One thing that might help is to narrow down what kind of features you want. What I'm seeing so far from your description is:
Friendica and Hubzilla] (and everything derived from them) are theoretically right up your alley, but each interface is kind of janky and introduces a learning curve of some kind. Misskey is extremely good, and often feels like the most polished option for long-form stuff. You're kind of limited on clients, though, as most mobile apps use the Mastodon API. Some Misskey forks add support for it, though.
I know you said you didn't like WordPress, and I get it. However, the actual ActivityPub integration is really really good, and continues to improve. If you self-host WordPress, there's hypothetically enough extensibility there to build everything you want. However, WordPress as a platform can be extremely janky. We tried doing it for We Distribute, and there's a bunch of stuff under the hood that doesn't quite work right with Fediverse integration. Then again, we've been doing a lot of experimental stuff over the years, so it might be different with a fresh install.
Thanks for your response. I have a little corner of the internet with a couple projects that require full access to the HTML for the site, so neocities of all things works great. I tried wordpress first, and I just couldn't get something I wanted worked out. For a blog, I've used it before. Blogs I'm kind of wavering about.
Friendica seems great and then...I can't find anything. I actually did find a Lemmy.world group on there that for some reason I couldn't see when searching globally for communities by the same name, so it did help me with Lemmy's jankiness... but for example looking for anyone I might possibly know (unlikely) seems to get me nothing close. I'll give misskey a look, I checked it out a while ago but was a Fediverse newb.
Short of being a proficient and innovative coder (which I am not), is there any way to help the Fediverse not suck like this?