I need a serious advice: What should I use for a nice and good blog ? #Wordpress ? #Substack ? #WriteFreely ?
Need to write some small stuff and maybe with pictures. Should be friendly and may reach to a large group of readers. #bloggingtips#blogging#Writing
Here's all the links to pages that inspired me this week and the people behind them.
Like I've been saying, there are some seriously awesome people out there on the webs doing very fun cool stuff. And I'm grateful they're sharing it with all of us. Thanks to you all!
There is no preview while writing, so you have to save in order to preview and when you spot something you want to change, this involves scrolling, esp. in a long post.
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!
Słuchajcie, może nie jest to do końca sprawa na #fedihelp, ale z drugiej strony nie mam gdzie indziej się zapytać.
Otóż. Mam bloga na wordpressie (w witrynie wordpress, nie na silniku). A wyciekł nius, że właściciel tumblra i wordpressa chce sprzedać swoją bazę OpenAI do trenowania AI-ów.
W związku z tym pytam: czy jeśli skasuję teraz bloga i gdzieś go przeniosę, to to coś w ogóle zmieni? W sensie, czy uchroni to moje teksty przed byciem pożywką dla AI? I jak się do tego zabrać, żeby nie umrzeć od natłoku dodatkowej pracy? Jakie hostingi blogowe polecacie? Pls, help, bo czuję się bardzo bezradna w tej sprawie 😥
Lada tydzień rusza nowa kooperatywa osób tworzących treści, która w temacie blogów będzie oferowała hosting Ghost i WordPress oraz blogi statyczne (wiele rozwiązań). Będzie również możliwość pełnej pieczy nad WordPress-em przez osoby z it kooperatywy. Jakie będą "warunki" jeszcze nie mogę dokładnie sprecyzować, bo się krystalizują, jednak bardzo atrakcyjne na pewno. Bo to będzie po prostu zaspokojenie potrzeb przy minimalizacji nakładów, z wykorzystaniem efektu synergii :)
Jeśli przenosiny/zmiana hostingu nie są palące asap, IMO warto poczekać.
Z komercyjnych rozwiązań, można polecić MyDevil.
Również fundacja non-profit FTdL oferuje hosting WordPress-a w modelu wzajemnościowym: w ramach wzajemności wspierasz fundację kiedy możesz, ile możesz. Parametry do ustalenia. Strona FTdL.pl (WordPress) działa właśnie na takim hostingu.
For federated comments on @write_as, I'm gonna start with just exposing Remark.as comments to the fediverse. This should at least get the basic data there, though you still won't receive replies from Mastodon etc.
Then I'll work on receiving replies from the wider fediverse, and finally moderation tools. We'll see how it looks with replies showing up in the Remark.as UI, and then maybe move to showing comments on blog posts themselves.
Made a bunch of progress on this today — now we're accepting and tracking the number of likes you get from the #fediverse on @write_as!
It's just not displayed anywhere. So that's the question — where do you want to see the number of likes you've received?
I know many people use #WriteFreely / Write.as to avoid likes and normal social media stuff. So should we just display the number on your stats page? Only to you on the post (e.g. next to "views")? Only in social spaces like Read.Write.as?
I think I know what I'm gonna self-host next:
WriteFreely.
Just today discovered it, and it seems pretty cool. and they keep saying it's easy installation.
and I also for a long time wanted to get writing more thoughtful things, unlike the nature of Mastodon.
so I think I'm gonna do that.
gonna learn as much as I can now, so I can spend the least time on the weekend to get it going.
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.
Si queréis tener una cuenta en #LaCentralita es muy fácil. Solo tenéis que elegir un plan de #LecturaSocial en nuestro Ko-fi (entre 0,4 y 2€ al mes) y aprovechar que ahora seguimos teniendo el descuento inicial.
Este descuento lo hemos mantenido desde hace 1 año, pero estamos creciendo en servicios:
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:
Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!
We can help you transition away from:
Substack
Twitter
Facebook/Instagram
Dropbox, iCloud, etx
Amazon/Audible
Google
Almost anything else!
You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!
If you're not too concerned with the monetization aspects and into something clean & barebones, you could also consider #writeFreely (I use this myself).
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: