What's a cool publishing medium for text-based posts nowadays? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by frankenswine@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Noxious@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

WriteFreely and Plume are based on ActivityPub and can be followed from the Fediverse (in addition to RSS of course)

[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

very intersting! thanks!

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Do you have any opinions on or comparison of the two?

[-] Noxious@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Noxious@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

There are many open WriteFreely instances: https://writefreely.org/instances

Write.as is kinda the flagship instance

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Write.as is closed at the free tier now, but I found paper.wf so that'll work. Now I just need to figure out what I want to do with it. I can do professional blogging on GitHub, so I'll have to find another voice and topic.

[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Plume seems discontinued or not actively maintained (anymore)

[-] Sergebr@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago

Absolutely love WriteFreely. Simple, fast, federation works flawlessly.

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