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| 4,110 | 1,813 | |
| 1.6% | 0.1% | |
| 8.6 | 8.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Go | Less | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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WriteFreely
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One of the greatest user interface disasters in history
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.
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From Jason: my custom digital garden in 11ty
Write Freely, open source writing space
- Simple WYSIWYG html editor? Open source or cheap.
- [Vell Harlan and the Doomsday Dorms] - Book 1 is now on Amazon!
- If anyone’s interested in moving off Reddit, a possible alternative.
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What self hosted app do you wish existed?
Docs - https://writefreely.org/
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Hi. I created a copy on Lemmy just in case Reddit goes down the drain. If any of the current mods wants mod access there, just let me know. If you think this is a horrible idea, also let me know and I'll remove it.
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.
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Which platform for occasional blog posts?
An alternative to Plume is WriteFreely, which is a pretty clean & simple experience. Just don't expect to much regarding customization.
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It’s 2023. Start using JavaScript Map and Set
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)
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ActivityPub server that can run on Docker with external db?
And since you've mentioned you want to write a blog, take a look at WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/
Publify
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
Refinery CMS - An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Spina CMS - Spina CMS
hugo-importer - CLI tool for migrating Hugo content to Write.as/WriteFreely
Camaleon CMS - Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails
Grav - Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
Comfortable Mexican Sofa - ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine
Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
LocomotiveCMS - A platform to create, publish and edit sites
Umbraco - The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 730.000 websites
Alchemy CMS - AlchemyCMS is a Rails CMS engine