WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

Re:WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writ... by mstngl on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:53AM (#27801829)

But here you have at least the AtivityPub integration. This allows users at instances of the Fediverse to subscribe and share your contents in a quite native way.

The Micropub / Microsub standard follows a similar, even more granular approach (where content types note and article are existent explicitly).

Of course, those alternative network standards are not attracting the broad majority of users yet but this is not a technical problem.

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Re:WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writ... by jhfxcvki on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:09PM (#27802001)

ActivityPub just pushes the discovery problem to the homeserver administrator, who must find -- via word of mouth -- other Fedi relays to federated with, or the homeserver is a silo.

No part of this discovery step is automated or aided by the software.

Personally I think it's a big oversight in the ActivityPub protocol.. but then again, ActivityPub is more oversights than it is features.

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Re:WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writ... by kevincox on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:00PM (#27802544)

I don't think that is the main benefit. I think it is the ability to "reshare" a post and have your followers see it. So you can follow your "friends" and learn about new blogs from there. There is no reason that this couldn't be done on regular blogs, but it isn't common.

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Re:WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writ... by tedunangst on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:34PM (#27802293)

AP has Note and Article object types.

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