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Macroblogging on the Fediverse (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by KapmK@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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I've been exploring and comparison-shopping fediverse server projects recently. I'd like to do some tech blogging for some personal software/hosting projects. The Fediverse feels like a natural fit for tech blogging, considering how relatively tech-savvy the userbase is.

Strangely, though, I've noticed that there isn't much of a presence for macro blogging among all these server projects. Some platforms support relatively feature-rich markup languages, and post size limit is apparently configurable on the instance level for a lot of them, but none of the platforms I've looked at have a UI designed with macro blogging in mind.

Does anyone know of any server projects, either in development or with active running servers, that are designed to support macro blogging?

I've got a list of some of the basic features I'm looking for:

Draft posts
List view of posts
Sorting and filtering posts at the user level
An editing UI that isn't a 150px by 200px rectangle in the center of the screen
Content previews
Decent NSFW content filtering
Threaded replies/comments
Federation (obviously)

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[–] DavidB@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're already using Wordpress, there's an ActivityPub plugin, it's semi-offficial, and this close to becoming official.
i.e. it was developed independently, but Automattic bought the plugin and hired the developer. Apparently, it'll eventually be integrated into Wordpress (probably through Jetpack - my assumption).

I use it, it basically allows people to follow your Wordpress blog through any Fediverse account, just like any other Fediverse account. You can decide if the full post gets pushed in followers feed, or just an excerpt, or just a link, etc, a bit like RSS.

[–] g13g@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You might also want to add in the Friends plugin. It allows you to follow Fediverse accounts from your WordPress blog once you have the ActivityPub plugin installed.

[–] shepherd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@KapmK This morning I was looking at write freely.org, and paper.wf. I'm not sure it's exactly what you want, but they may help someone else who's looking for something similar!

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

https://joinplu.me/

https://writefreely.org/