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Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by TheJoYo on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:26PM (#25895571)
writefreely has a better UI for reading long form posts and is quite popular among the academic communities on the fediverse.

personally I host a gitea server and link to my longer documentation on my federated account. that gives me a bit more freedom to edit the content and easier to reference. matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content.

Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by moksha256 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:17PM (#25896160)
> matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content.

Can you elaborate on that a bit? In my experience, Matrix implementations tend to be Slack/IRC-style chat interfaces.

Are you saying you find such interfaces to be good for long-form content, or are there other Matrix implementations that work out well for long-form content?

Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by TheJoYo on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:10PM (#25896680)
The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org

I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that reguard.

I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.

Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by kitotik on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:17PM (#25896150)
Could you expound on using matrix for long form content?

I host a synapse homeserver, and feel like I’m not using it to its full potential.

Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by rglullis on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:29PM (#25896842)
AFAIK, there is no implementation beyond some proof-of-concepts, but the idea is that Matrix (via bridges) can receive and send activitypub updates and treat them as messages in a room. So you could follow and respond to people on a room and they would receive updates on their ActivityPub server. It

This idea is not new, really. Movim (https://movim.eu) is running a federated social network on top of XMPP for over a decade already.

Re:Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left by TheJoYo on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:10PM (#25896684)
The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that regard.

I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.