That is the flagship instance, here is a list of community run instances: https://writefreely.org/instances
I guess what I should have linked is the github, because, shoutout: they have made it hella easy to self host
Is anyone else using this for a blog? I think that there’s really cool potential that I haven’t quite grokked yet–the potential for ActivityPub syndication has some benefits over RSS when it comes to fluid comment integration, for instance.
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This problem is hosting-side, not program-side. If you find a more stable instance, would you switch/invest/like more about Plume as the ol’ days? (disclosure: I want to open a blog and I am considering all the options)
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This is by far tho most beautiful of these. Plume is nice cause its in rust, but its not as pretty.
I haven’t updated in a while, but I do have a blog. I’m most familiar with python in terms of modern languages, so I use Pelican to compile my site. https://blog.getpelican.com/
I’m new to the whole federated thing - I’ve briefly poked around mastadon in the past, but that’s it. It looks like both write.as and Plume are more in tune with the federation concept.
So, having said that: sell me on one of these platforms. What does moving to a federated blog have over what I am currently doing? (My blog is very niche focused on a topic, not general consumption.)
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Sales pitches are tricky, because in the world of free options, it’s about seeing what kind of solutions meet what kind of needs. If you have a lot of friends on Mastodon (or an audience or whatnot) it’s kind of cool to have your content exist there; this is what my blog looks like from Mastodon. That lets people respond to your stuff like they could to any toot. (Someday I hope writefreely gets to the point where those replies can be included at the bottom like comments). Theoretically there’s also some discoverability involved in running your blog on an instance that hosts multiple blogs, though I didn’t go that route.
I’m very much in the opposite camp, I doubt anyone I know is on Mastodon - there’s a handful of acquaintances I could picture conceivably being on there, but that’s about it. It’s more I’m just trying to explore options. I understand that “selling” is perhaps the wrong word. :)
I guess from my personal perspective, I’m interested in learning more about this landscape. If Lemmy does take off it feels to me that knowing more about the “fediverse” would be useful. In practice I am likely going to stick with my current methods, as I already have some customization I have written for my needs.
Definitely stick with what you have until there’s a benefit! I personally think the commenting system they’re thinking about would be phenomenal, so you never know how the choice landscape may shift in the future.
What change about medium do you dislike? (i don’t know what it was like in the beginning)
modals and headers and footers having nothing to do with what you came there to see. I can’t speak to the fairness/advisability of the paywall because I’ve heard varying things about it being good/bad for writers, but…
I like that my writefreely blog is served out briskly without too much cruft. I’ve started investigating the templates it used and it seems there’s some sensible opportunities for some customization beyond what the CSS field gives you as well.
Probably the fact that it’s a centralized service while blogs were inherently decentralized.
medium used to be decentralized?
I didn’t say Medium was decentralized, I said blogs were decentralized. Medium is centralizing a decentralized thing, which is terrible.
Yes, but in my parent comment I asked specifically about the differences between Medium of the past and Medium that it is today, and you made a comment about blogs being decentralized, so from your comment I inferred that in the beginning Medium was also decentralized and that’s why it was acceptable, and in turn why \u\kixiQu said they liked the “past” state of Medium better.
I assume they mean that blogging isn’t something that it makes sense to decentralise.
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I sort of want to subscribe just like a patreon to be able to toss in a request for pulling (with manual approval) comments from the fediverse with activitypub. 🤔
I was using Write.as for a while, and while I like it, the idea of data ownership for blogs seems FAR more important than federation. So I swapped Hugo and some cheap hosting. Couldn’t really be happier.
That said, I’m glad that they are around. They are a great little tool/product/company.
