Nel 2024, per la prima volta, si ha finalmente la sensazione di avere una massa critica di persone e piattaforme interessate a ridare vita a Internet per riportare in vita ciò che abbiamo perso e creare qualcosa di nuovo. Solo nell'ultima settimana ci sono state conversazioni fra #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #TheVerge, #Buttondown, #WriteFreely e diversi co-autori della specifica #ActivityPub. C'è la sensazione palpabile che questo possa essere l'anno del web aperto!
Is there a “I want #quotes in #Mastodon” button that I can hit somewhere?
Seriously, it’s holding everything and everybody behind.
Context: I’ve decided to play with some tighter interaction between my #Akkoma social feed and my #WriteFreely blog.
I can now write long posts in a more blog-friendly format on @fabio. Then leverage the Fediverse integration to quote them from my main handle.
My Akkoma post can add a TL;DR and a bunch of hashtags. And the quoted message has a nice “Read more“ link that can expand the blog post for those who want to read it directly on their timeline.
Amazing, right?
Well, just look how nicely it’s rendered on my Akkoma instance, and how Mastodon renders it instead.
A cryptic RE: https://my.write.freely/api/posts/post-id that doesn’t even render a preview nor anything.
The cryptic version is the way that >75% of the people who use the Fediverse will see on their timelines.
No matter how much progress other implementations decide to do. No matter how sophisticated their UX. If the major implementation decides that quotes will never be a thing, we’re kind of stuck in the state where JavaScript could do amazing things on Firefox, but most of the folks used IE, so the party was ruined for everybody else too.
OK, trying a new un-corporate host for my blogs. Here is my first post, a poem. Please support my change from Medium to WriteFreely by visiting and helping me promote:
Tutti i contenuti di Wordpress.com e Tumblr verranno usati per addestrare l'#IA senza l'autorizzazione degli autori.
Tutto quanto scritto su queste piattaforme di #blog serviranno quindi ad addestrare le intelligenze artificiali dei #BigTech.
Quale miglior momento per la de-wordpressizzazione?
https://Noblogo.org è la piattaforma italiana del #fediverso basata su #writefreely, creata per avere un proprio blog minimale, senza pubblicità e senza profitto sui tuoi contenuti!
Onward, #fedivoyage! This is the last stop; afterwards @blinry and I will wrap it up and look back.
I will take a look at #plume, a "blogging application". This means it's an alternative to #writefreely, which we visited approximately one year ago. So let's see!
Hello again #Fediverse, I may need your #fedihelp. So, here's a list of the Fediverse software I'm about to make temporary accounts for to test all the features and differences:
So, did I miss anything noteworthy? Does anyone have any tips or recommendations before I choose a server for any one of these? I'll probably be going for the most popular server on each for improved federation and maintenance.
Note: I'm using #Sharkey right now and Misskey forks are already overrepresented, so that's why it's not included.
one of the quickest ways for a journalist to take advantage of a "Substack", "Medium" or other popular monetized platform in the Fediverse is to merely create an account on one that provides these utilities - Like #WordPress or #Mitra or #WriteFreely. (...)"
finally got ircd-hybrid and the lounge working in a state I want them to be in.
I think I might install #writefreely on the machine as well, mostly to have some sort of a website on there in case someone reaches it and doesnt' know what it is.
If Substack is perfect for your needs then use that. Your problem with substack prolly isn't who else uses it, but rather, that you yourself are calling a proprietary, privacy disrespecting deprecated monolithic silo a "Perfect solution".
Instead of doing what's right, and for the right reasons, you eschew dogfooding on #FOSS when you should be championing it, and call a professional data mining haven perfect, when it is anything but.
Well, you're already on the Fediverse, so you should know better, but I'll dispense with the lecture now and point out a few good FOSS solutions that are Fediverse powered (and one that isn't, but still rocks as a publishing platform) for you:
Option #1, #WriteFreely, which you can find over at its git repo under https://gitHub.com/writefreely/writefreely.
Option #2, deploy yourself a #WordPress site, Then install the #ActivityPub plugin - the latest release publishes into the Fediverse and allows any Fediverse account to reply/comment threads natively - like I'm responding now. It also allows anyone on the Internet to join the discussions as well. WordPress has many options for subscriber lists, Etc., as well as #paywalled#digital_downloads, if you like.
Option #3, #Mitra is a Fediverse publishing platform that currently supports paid subscriptions for Authors: https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list - pick one that has open registrations or self-host yourself, like all of the other solutions here :)
If you're really talking about maintaining subscribers lists, but especially Having a subscriber list and building it up, then most ignorant folks would recommend HubSpot - but they would be wrong, because you can get the same powerful inbound marketing solution / #CRM, only better, for #FREE (That's a bare minimum savings of over $500/month)!!! So install #Mautic and let it do what it does, which you can get here: https://www.mautic.org/download/source-code and then after that, use it in conjunction with the following FOSS application that was tailor made for exactly what you're asking for...
#Ghost is FOSS, and in conjunction with an inbound marketing platform like Mautic is the perfect dynamic duo - like Batman and Robin. But even better, is that I'm going to point you towards a #HowTo that is an actual cookbook #tutorial written by someone expressing the same lamentations as yourself, and here's the exact solution they've provided for you:
By the way, your Mautic server also integrates directly with#MailGun (or Sendgrid, SendinBlue, SparkPost, etc.) to complete your transactional email system that will tell you when each and every recipient received, viewed (and or how long) your emails, as well as how many times they looked at those emails, with a bunch of other tools as well.
I hope that helps, and I'm very glad that you came to your senses about not using a privacy disrespecting, proprietary closed source solution like Substack - besides, registering your own domain name would have hidden the fact that you were using substack anyway, so it's about YOU doing the right thing the right way. Please choose your software in the future based upon the freedoms and ethics it offers in serving you and your customers. There's evil people everywhere, and the smart ones are using FOSS too - not substack.
So unfortunately, for this release we'll only have Mailgun support. But I'll get SMTP support in the following release, so you can use any email provider you want to send newsletters, password reset emails, etc.
Made it to Brussels for #FOSDEM! Will be hacking on some #WriteFreely stuff today, but looking forward to seeing everyone and going to some talks tomorrow.
As an experiment I would like to try to maintain a blog by exporting threads from Mastodon to a more static format.
I hoped I could find a CLI tool resembling MastoReader, but no luck. Turns out it was really easy to do in quick and dirty Perl. So this is my new blogging pipeline:
Habemus #EscrituraSocial :) Una instancia de #WriteFreely en español, donde otros idiomas como euskera, catalán, gallego, asturiano, aragonés o aranés también son bienvenidos.
Se trata de un proyecto dentro de la comunidad #LecturaSocial. Si ya sois de la comunidad, os llegará en breve un email. Algunas personas que me habéis preguntado ya tenéis la invitación.
Si todavía no sois de #LecturaSocial, podéis elegir uno de nuestros planes en Ko-fi. Aquí toda la info:
Dentro de muy poquito tendremos los registros abiertos (previa suscripción) en #EscrituraSocial, una nueva comunidad de blogs para que podáis tener vuestro propio blog minimalista y federado.
La idea es que con la misma suscripción para #LecturaSocial se ofrezca también un #WriteFreely. Si solo queréis uno de los dos servicios podéis quedaros con el que os vaya mejor.
De lo que se trata es de ir ofreciendo más servicios dentro de una misma comunidad.
Seit seinen Anfangstagen hat #Facebook penibel darauf geachtet, alle... zu #eliminieren.
Der einfachste Weg das zu erreichen, ist es, Firmen zu kaufen, die eines Tages zur Konkurrenz werden könnten.
I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only)
A while ago I posted a thread back on the...