Plume VS WriteFreely

https://joinplu.me/ states that project is in maintenance mode. however there seemsto be activity (rather frequent) on github https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume/commits/main

on https://joinplu.me/

The website at https://joinplu.me/ says in its first paragraph:

Write.as is just one of the many Write Freely instances. Any of the Write Freely or Plume instances will do. Well, not any, try to pick one that has been up for a longer period and is unlikely to go down. I'd try one from a Librehoster like Tedomum. These are federated, meaning it doesn't really matter which instance you pick, in terms of how many people are going to discover your blog.

Another FOSS project, [Plume](https://joinplu.me), has the same [Gitea](https://git.joinplu.me/Plume/Plume)/\[GitHub\]([https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume/](https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume/)) process as ours, and it seems well accepted by its community.

Rust projects that need more recognition imo are: * Zola * Spot * Popsicle * Plume

write.as and https://writefreely.org/ are what you want, but static and activitypub don't reallllyyyy go together without shims in the middle.

Plenty of people are migrating into the Fediverse, mostly towards Mastodon/Plemora in my circles but there's also writefreely, a federated macroblogging platform. Every account in the Fediverse can access and follow others, even across services.

Related to the recent post on Mastodon. All these implementations speak the same higher-level protocol and you can therefore connect, follow, and share between them.

Two more not mentioned:

https://writefreely.org/ (Blog platform)

https://bookwyrm.social/ (Goodreads alternative)

Since you didn't say it, I'll mention that fediverse is not limited to microblogging. For long form blogging there is, e.g., https://writefreely.org/

To me it feels like RSS on steroids. Best of the modern web (technology) combined with the best of early 2000s web (decentralization).

Also if you think this sounds neat and don't have a blog setup of choice already: https://writefreely.org/

I would suggest you could try a Write.Freely blog - it's free, simple and clean. And there are various hosts you can get an account on. It's the platform I use for my personal Blogs in Slowly matters and Technology.

Don't build websites that need to rely on ad revenue to operate. If you want to publish something like a blog, use something decentralized or have someone else host it that can amortize the costs (using something like writefreely. If you want to build an application, make it a desktop app.