Write.as or Micro.blog or ?? for migration of public profile from big corporate social media
Write.as or Micro.blog or ?? for migration of public profile from big corporate social media
I have a personal website that is just a landing page made with Carrd. I’ve been interacting on the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky so far). I would like to consolidate my public Fediverse persona, write a little bit longer form blogging, and be able to have a central spot for my pictures and posts.
I’m looking at using write.as or micro.blog on a subdomain of my personal website. What are people’s experience with these two platforms and are there other good ones?
Has anyone found a good workflow for consolidating personas? I know you can use mastodon logins on Pixelfed. Is there a scenario where I just have one server login and tie everything to that?
Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.
Or you could just use a Mastodon instance with a higher limit of characters, unless you really need intricate formatting and/or more than one picture.
Orrrrr Friendica.
I would suggest Write.as or running your own WriteFreely install using Yunohost.
Here's mine: https://writing.socl.bz/
I'm currently using write.as. It's a pretty bare-bones setup when in single user mode and doesn't give the kind of list view you might expect for readers - it loads everything onto a single page. I'm considering maybe using Ghost, which is another big name in the federated blogging space. Write.as doesn't come with comments by default, but I was able to add cactus-comments, but it was a huge PITA because it requires a matrix server.
I do, however, like the minimalist UI aspect of it. You can take a look at mine here. I was also able to get around the list thing by using pinned posts, which stay at the top, so I made an about, a directory, and subscribe pages.
Write.as will post to mastodon under an account that it creates and I have myself on mastodon as a verified owner of the blog site.
Ghost.org is working toward Federating. WordPress.org (self-hosted) using the ActivityPub plugin federates nicely.
But then you have to follow what Matt Mullenweg is up to!
Ghost Activitypub support is still in the making unfortunately. You can selfhost ghost already and if you check out the latest version you also have AP, but they said it's not stable yet and might break. Eagerly waiting for them to finish.
So, this is kind of a left-field suggestion but what about WAFRN (app.wafrn.net) - it's the Fediverse's version of Tumblr
As soon as you think you know all the fediverse services out there...
Personally I use Hugo and host it on Codeberg Pages, it is super fast and the templating system is a godsend. If I wanted an easier solution I would go into Bearblog
Some people recommend omg.lol too.
Hugo and bear blog are not Federated though right?
Correct, they are not.
I’ve tried all sorts of things and have settled on using Wordpress with a rss widget which publishes my rss feed from Mastodon (it picks up certain hashtags to avoid publishing everything - eg. #blog). It publishes pics and everything. It also works with Pixelfed (maybe not Bsky). There’s probably more elegant ways to do this - and ones involving activitypub - but this one works without much effort setting up.
Yeah. I've done WP before just wanted to try something new. Sounds like your setup isn't too bad though.
The downside is that I’ve virtually stopped writing blog posts and rely on the “microposts”. Not sure if that’s why I started a blog.
Check out Hugo. Takes a little to setup but it's completely free. You can host for free using your GitHub and a provider, plenty of tutorials on how to do it (blanking on the providers name atm)