i’m looking for a place/means/medium for texts that i write. content is essays on topics that i find worthy writing about with hints towars philosophy (i guess).
twenty years ago the right answer to my question would have been a (we-)blog - what’s the current day equivalent for such a venture?
optimally, a solution would neither be based on lock-ins, data collection/aggregation or other shady business and would be freely (e.g. in a web browser, no login/registration required) and easily accessible.
Wordpress recently started offering fediverse federation. That it exists is the sum total of what I know about it, but I can see the potential.
WordPress is still the best option IMO. The software and ecosystem are very mature and as you say they’re friendly to the fediverse too
Writefreely is a fantastic option. Your posts and profile integrate perfectly with the Fediverse right out of the box, it’s nice to look at and really nice to use. It’s also FOSS. RSS is supported by default. If you want to tinker with it you can add custom CSS and it’s self-hostable. I host my own instance and it’s by far the simplest & easiest federated software I’ve run. An absolute peach - highly recommend!
WriteFreely and Plume are based on ActivityPub and can be followed from the Fediverse (in addition to RSS of course)
very intersting! thanks!
Do you have any opinions on or comparison of the two?
I used to prefer Plume because it’s written in Rust, but, well, it seems like it isn’t maintained right now, so WriteFreely is currently the better option
I don’t see anyone open for no cost right now (at least not in English). Might see about self-hosting if it’ll run on a raspberry pi.
There are many open WriteFreely instances: https://writefreely.org/instances
Write.as is kinda the flagship instance
Plume seems discontinued or not actively maintained (anymore)
Absolutely love WriteFreely. Simple, fast, federation works flawlessly.
ClassicPress is WordPress without Gutenberg, if you’re used to that interface. It was based on 4.9 but now on current releases.
Whatever Molly White uses for https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ is something she wrote and was available on one of her accounts.
I’m looking for a similar thing that absolutely excludes all scraping, bots, search engines, etc. I think the only way we get the web back is cordoning the leeches off to one side. Let them drown in each other’s AI regurgitation.
… Lemmy?
Something really weird and interesting is Gemini Gemlogs. Technically not WWW, but still an internet platform.
Something more normal and accessible is Hugo.
i’ve been into gemini and similar tech - and i really love it! did actually consider it, although i’m not sure whether it’s an obstace for less tech-savvy people to reach my content?
Hugo looks promising - especially since i’m somewhat critical of huge (js heavy), dynamic websites
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Hugo 3>
You might want to see a cardiologist about that deformed heart
Use some static site generator like Hugo and host your files on a Github, S3 or any other static site hosting. For comments you can use disqus or whatever is popular nowadays.
It’s very cheap and easy to do with static HTML files hosted on S3. But of course, that requires using AWS, which means Amazon, which means corporate evil. You would have complete control over it, though. It can also be slow to propagate any changes, so you’ll want to get your pages right before uploading them. You can update them, it just takes a long time to get pushed everywhere. That part is pretty annoying, but it is very inexpensive.
I heard substack was a new medium.com so it might be worth taking a look.
Substack is a safe harbour for actual Nazis and they refuse to do anything about it.
Everyone should avoid that site like the plague, and encourage anyone they know using it to do the same
is a text based, massively interlinked website that predates Wikipedia.
The topics(nodes) range from non-fiction informational to philosophical musings.
Will need an account to add nodes.
