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I’ve heard of plume and writefreely/write.as but never used them. A friend is also asking for blogging platforms that are easy to use - they’re non techy.

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love writefreely. Its a very nice minimalist easy to use platform. Just wrote and publish.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

It's nice that they support ActivityPub https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely

[–] delollipop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how’s the text formatting and media attachment? Any limitations or tips for newcomers?

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Text formatting is done through Markdown (you can also use HTML is markdown is not enough for something specific) it doesn't handle images by default, but you can embedded images.

[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still hoping to see Tumblr join the Fediverse, and maybe even WordPress.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's an official (as in maintained by Automattic) activitypub plugin for WordPress.

[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 2 points 1 year ago

TIL Thanks!

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

But you get the whole BloatPress with it.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote my own blog copying what they showed in https://youtu.be/Gzj723LkRJY and added a atom feed and pingback to it to federate.

Later I also added microformats and Webmentions.

[–] delollipop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool! Do you mind expanding on how you ping it back to the fediverse?

I’ve heard of webmentions before used for comments and interactions with the fediverse, but haven’t heard of microformats. Would you mind explaining what/how you use them for?

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 1 year ago

So it depends a bit on how we define the fediverse. Technically I'm not using ActivityPub, although I wanted to implement it some day at least for my notes (like tweets) and photos.

Right now if I have a link in a post I check if the link has webmentions enabled, if yes then I send a webmention. On the other side when I get a webmention from someone, I doublecheck if they really linked to me, if so then I parse the HTML for microformats and parse out the author, an avatar, date of post and the content of the post, save it in my database and then show it as a comment underneth my own post like: https://jeena.net/notes/828

[–] Pssk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Hi,

Did anyone try this yet ?

Thanks

[–] delollipop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh nice, didn’t know about that! Thanks!

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Hi,

Did you end up doing it ?

Thanks

[–] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty happy with writefreely. I’m currently using it to post a solo journaling RPG I recently completed, and I love the simplicity of the interface. It just gets out of the way and lets you post.

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