ink VS WriteFreely

https://github.com/thesephist/ink is a good example. You can hear its author in metamuse podcast 42 https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/metamuse/id1504506097

Go seemed to work quite well for Ink (https://github.com/thesephist/ink) and I liked that I didn't need to worry about picking the right dependancies (e.g. like with Rust) because Go's standard library covers all the use-cases of building a general purpose language.

Ink programming language\ (14 comments)

For someone who care the implementation than the high-level design: It's written in go, interpreter-based, and pretty small [1].

Although the author seems to be a well-studied PL lover, you don't have to be like this to create a small language. It's fun experience and there are books for non-experts like [3].

- [1] https://github.com/thesephist/ink/tree/master/pkg/ink

- [2] https://thesephist.com/posts/pl/

- [3] https://interpreterbook.com/

Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.

Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.

Write Freely, open source writing space

Docs - https://writefreely.org/

It's all about federation, in these federated networks all these servers talk to eachother and exchange messages about stuff going on on the servers. So it's easy to set up a hidden service for the webui of one of them, but it's sometimes quite obscure to try and set up the federation for one of them. It depends on what settings they honor and what other types of encryption and authentication they require and stuff. But, if you put some effort in ahead of time, you can make it really simple: I don't know how to do it in rust(lemmy is written in rust), but here's a neat example of how to do it in Go: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/710 which requires no complicated configuration.

An alternative to Plume is WriteFreely, which is a pretty clean & simple experience. Just don't expect to much regarding customization.

I also wish write.as were more popular. It's like old Medium, but less popular but with a more reader-friendly business model and self-host-able (AGPL v3)

And since you've mentioned you want to write a blog, take a look at WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/