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WriteFreely vs Plume (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by mossy@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Hi everyone! I wanted to know what people thought of WriteFreely and Plume and which one you would recommend for a personal blog. Also, if you can, could you suggest some instances? From looking, I often come across instances with strangely little on their about page, and can't work out who administrates them. Thanks!

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[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not just use RSS then?

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how RSS helps in publishing a blog?

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any blogging platform supports RSS. So you can subscribe to them just fine.

What federation brings to the table is the back-channel, i.e. comments. If you don't want that, you don't want federation IMHO.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can federate just fine. I've followed and boosted WriteFreely articles on Mastodon.

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yes I know. But you can also just post a link on Mastodon to the blog (via an RSS bot for example). If there are no federated comments, it is functionally identical.

[–] musicmatze@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(Just to mention it:) writefreely only publishes articles via Activitypub but does not have a way to view replies on an article (yet?).

[–] Halce@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, exactly. Personally, I think Plume does it the right way here.