I’m starting to get in to self hosting and am looking at self-hosted blog solutions. It looks like WriteFreely is the main fediverse blog platform, with Plume as second though I don’t see it used much.

But that got me thinking that it’d be good to follow federated blogs and have some long form reading that I follow, like we did back when RSS was the main way of doing things.

But how do I actually find bloggers? It looks like WriteFreely can federate with Mastodon, but it doesn’t look like there’s a federated blogging platform like lemmy or mastodon. Is this correct? Where I can I go (other than Medium) to find blogs and bloggers in the fediverse?

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    6 months ago

    For microblogging, platforms like Mastodon with large instances. For long form blogging, there aren’t any major platforms or instances yet. Discovery happens the old fashioned way with links.

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    Feedle seems to be a normal RSS directory, but they make lots of noise on Mastodon - so I guess a lot of the blogs listed there will have some Fediverse representation as well…

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    This doesn’t realllllyyyy answer your main question, but you got me curious how WriteFreely blog posts look from other platforms, and which ones can see them. So, I tried a few with this post of mine. Obviously some of these wouldn’t make any sense, and also for some of them I may have just never figured out how to properly format the URL/search the way it wanted. But, here’s what I got on every platform where I have an account:

    • Mastodon (“https://todon.eu/@the-rose-garden@text.tchncs.de/113624027917705904”): If you’re logged in, it shows the title, any pictures, and a link to the full text. If you’re logged out, it shows you a redirect option to the originating blog. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
    • Friendica: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with a “read more” accordion.
    • WAFRN: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with all the pictures at the bottom.
    • BookWyrm: Logged in, it can see the blog but can’t retrieve the post. Logged out, it automatically redirects to the blog.
    • NeoDB (“https://neodb.social/users/@the-rose-garden@text.tchncs.de/”): Logged in, it can see the blog but not the post. Logged out, it asks you to log in. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
    • Lemmy: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • PieFed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Pixelfed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Mobilizon: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Ibis: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Peertube: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
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        Oh cool!! Yeah I definitely tried it on a few silly ones just because lol. Now somebody’s just gotta try Sharkey, Misskey, MBin, uh… GoToSocial. Probably a bunch more that I don’t know about. ActivityPub is so neat!

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    Oh sharkey (misskey fork) they have a lookup popup, where you can paste any ActivityPub post and it will fetch and display it. Very useful, and if someone shares a link to something Activityoub compatible, it will automatically render under it.

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      Pages aren’t made for blogging, ActivityStreams2 defines some of the post types activitypub can handle, article and page are both different types, articles are for long form writing, pages are for collections of other types of posts.

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        6 months ago

        I honestly don’t understand it, that’s why I said “seems to support”, but thanks for the clarification.

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          Well, activitypub, the protocol that all these platforms uses is really just a fancy way of transporting activitystreams, a standard for social media posts. AS describes that an [Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service] can [Accept, Add, Announce, Arrive, Block, Create, Delete, Dislike, Flag, Follow, Ignore, Invite, Join, Leave, Like, Listen, Move, Offer, Question, Read, Reject, Remove, TentativeAccept, TentativeReject, Travel, Undo, Update, View] one or more - [Article, Audio, Document, Event, Image, Note, Page, Place, Profile, Relationship, Tombstone, Video]

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    read.write.as shows posts from users on that platform. maybe a good place to start looking. at any rate, it’s pretty ad-hoc and manual because, while it federates, you’re not going to see activity other than posting.

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    It might be nice to have a community or something where people link interesting blog posts or blogs. Maybe there is one? (plz share the link if there is!) I always used to find new blogs from people who did like weekly good post round-ups.