I’m starting to get in to self hosting and am looking at self-hosted blog solutions. It looks like WriteFreely is the main fediverse blog platform, with Plume as second though I don’t see it used much.

But that got me thinking that it’d be good to follow federated blogs and have some long form reading that I follow, like we did back when RSS was the main way of doing things.

But how do I actually find bloggers? It looks like WriteFreely can federate with Mastodon, but it doesn’t look like there’s a federated blogging platform like lemmy or mastodon. Is this correct? Where I can I go (other than Medium) to find blogs and bloggers in the fediverse?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I honestly don’t understand it, that’s why I said “seems to support”, but thanks for the clarification.

    • irelephant 🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Well, activitypub, the protocol that all these platforms uses is really just a fancy way of transporting activitystreams, a standard for social media posts. AS describes that an [Application, Group, Organization, Person, Service] can [Accept, Add, Announce, Arrive, Block, Create, Delete, Dislike, Flag, Follow, Ignore, Invite, Join, Leave, Like, Listen, Move, Offer, Question, Read, Reject, Remove, TentativeAccept, TentativeReject, Travel, Undo, Update, View] one or more - [Article, Audio, Document, Event, Image, Note, Page, Place, Profile, Relationship, Tombstone, Video]