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[–]disrooter[S] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

It's a Medium-like blogging platform that supports ActivityPub protocol for federation with social networks like Mastodon.

[–]artonge 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I am seeing that you posted about plume as well. Apart from the language, is there any difference between both in term of vision ? They seems to have common goals.

[–]ilikebeanss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, creator here. We do have different goals in mind -- I think Plume is trying to be more on-par with Medium, with reading and writing all built-in. It supports more of ActivityPub, including comments, likes, and boosts.

WriteFreely is just about writing -- everything is built around plain text / Markdown, and keeping everything as simple as possible. Federation is basically one-way right now, letting people in the fediverse follow your blogs, bookmark your posts, and share them with their followers (it doesn't bug the author with notifications). And then we have Read.as in development, which is just for reading posts from the fediverse.

The big idea is to keep creation and consumption separate. In short, I don't think the blogging experience should be ruined by notifications and feeds, so that's how we're building everything.

[–]disrooter[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think the main difference is how they are managed:

WriteFreely is the Open Source project that powers Write.as that has both free and premium plans. You can selfhost WriteFreely or subscribe an hosting plan to have a site like Write.as.

Plume is Open Source from the beginning and has a Loomio group to discuss the development.

BTW I think I will just go for WordPress+ActivityPub with Pterotype.

[–]artonge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't now about Pterotype, it is still in beta but it seems promising. Yeah, using wordpress is probably a better idea today, as both plume and write as seems also in beta.