writeas-vala VS WriteFreely

5 months ago, I shared my Markdown Project on the GNOME subreddit. If you're interested in Open Source on Linux, since then, we've released a Write Freely Vala Client Library, Wordpress Client Vala Library, and a Ghost Vala Client Library. These are all basic libraries that support image uploading and posting for now.

Docs - https://writefreely.org/

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)

Instead of joining a Mastodon server, have you considered joining a write.freely server? Write.freely is a decentralized platform for writers that integrates the ActivityPub protocol, so anyone in the Fediverse can interact with your posts. This may be more well suited for your needs, although if you still want to join a Mastodon server there are many good answers in this thread.

Lastly, and this isn't Mastodon, but if you want to write long form content on the Fediverse, you might want to check out Write Freely. It's kinda like Medium, but your posts live in the Fediverse.

If you're looking to publish long form content, you should also look at Write Freely. It's a blogging platform where the fediverse is baked in from the start. The plug-in you found will work great, especially when paired with a Mastodon instance. But it might be worth a look if you haven't seen it already. (That said it sounds like you want to deeply structure your content, so Write Freely might not be enough for your goals anyways.)

I have WriteFreely bookmarked after seeing it mentioned on this subreddit in the past for similar features. I haven't had the chance to spin it up yet, so I unfortunately can't offer any personal experiences.

A handful of relatively ecosystem-specific things like WriteFreely(pretty tied to the hip to ActivityPub, not much ecosystem around it)