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.)
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.
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.