Danie van der Merwe

WriteFreely is an open source platform for building a writing space on the web which uses ActivityPub protocol to share with the Fediverse

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 10:15:52 +0100

GadgeteerZA

https://hubzilla.gadgeteer.co.za/channel/gadgeteer

WriteFreely is built around writing. There's no news feed, notifications, or unnecessary likes or claps to take you away from your train of thought. You get a distraction-free writing environment, and readers can enjoy a clean reading experience.

Reach outside your own site with federation via ActivityPub. WriteFreely lets anyone on Mastodon, Pleroma, or any ActivityPub-enabled service follow your blog, bookmark your posts, and share them with their followers.

WriteFreely is written in Go (golang), so it runs anywhere and takes up very few resources — you can even run it on a Raspberry Pi! Installation is as easy as downloading a binary and a few supporting files, no other dependencies required.

See WriteFreely

#technology #opensource #writing #fediverse #blogs

Minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform.

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Into the Fediverse: An Ethical Social Media Pt 2: How do I join the Fediverse? Here are some good options to consider

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:39:22 +0100

GadgeteerZA

https://hubzilla.gadgeteer.co.za/channel/gadgeteer

Big Corporations are the core problem with social media platforms. We can do better and many are working together to fix that, though we are nowhere near ready yet.

This video will show you how to navigate a federated site and explain the logic process behind it. It's a difficult concept for those who are only exposed to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc which have one central site. Federated nodes (and different networks) can seamlessly work together and offer a lot more flexibility for a diversity of groups and interests.

Instead of shutting Facebook down, it should just be forced to federate then no-one need leave their friends behind if they migrate away to a different network. During this video you'll also hear how Facebook once did have some federation, which it cut off.

See Into the Fediverse: An Ethical Social Media Pt 2: How do I join the Fediverse

#technology #fediverse #socialmedia #bigtech

Corporations are the core problem with social media platforms. We can do better and many are working together to fix that, though we are no where near ready...

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Hubzilla (Facebook alternative) is the only social network to have a protocol allowing you to clone your account elsewhere for backup, redundancy, or migration

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:37:13 +0100

GadgeteerZA

https://hubzilla.gadgeteer.co.za/channel/gadgeteer

Your clone is an equal “version” of you on the grid. The synchronization is transparent to the people that comment on your posts or share things with you. If your primary hub goes offline for some reason, you can continue your communications using your clone. When your primary comes back online, it will sync automatically in the background.

You can even delete your original account on hubzilla.dev and make beta.dev your channel’s primary hub, which allows you to do something you can’t do on any other decentralized social networking platform: migrate your identity and connections seamlessly between servers.

Your online identity is not an account on a server, and your social graph is not imprisoned on a website. This is true ownership of your identity. This is nomadic identity. And it’s only available on Hubzilla.

See a good guide on how to set it up at Nomadic identity, brought to you by Hubzilla

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