You can also check out Ghost.
Learn the basics of WordPress first then check out Bricks Builder. It's not free but the best in it's class. If you aren't doing this professionally you'll experience a steep learning curve but once you master it, you can build pretty much anything you want extremely fast.
If you really want to build it in HTML and CSS you'd have to build your own theme.
What's your experience? Are you a web developer or in IT?
Thanks, I hate it.
less worry of facing personal consequences if someone posts something illegal on their instance
An instance provider isn't necessarily responsible for content on their instance. At least in a lot European countries like Germany.
You just have to have an easy way to report content (which Lemmy has) and remove it immediately when you become aware of it.
With a programming language you tell a computer what to do. With a markup language, which HTML is, you tell a computer what to show. Much different.
You wouldn't want to mix them up. The precise distinction is what the web makes so beautifully scalable.
Thought exactly the same. I'd like to know how the legal side would look like. Let's say you say D. Could you go to court if they say it's wrong?
Definitely!
My knees disagree with you.
Mobile Apps need an API too.