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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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…
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.
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.
The same way out found bloggers for your RSS catchers.
I haven’t done that in 15 years XD
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.
Sharkey seems to support hosting blogs (pages) directly on the platform itself.
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.
I honestly don’t understand it, that’s why I said “seems to support”, but thanks for the clarification.
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
[]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 -[]
