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AJ Sadauskas

Anyone here use @writefreely?

I've just set up a self-hosted WriteFreely blog as a first experiment with self-hosting instances and using @yunohost (huge thanks to @_elena for your tips! 🥰)

It's visible on the Fedi at @ajsadauskas@blog.sadauskas.id.au (Being a brand new account, good chance it hasn't pulled across to your instance yet!)

At least from initial setup, it looks like only the first line of the post and a link is pulling across to Mastodon.

Is there any way to make the full post text visible on Mastodon?

I can see who's following the blog, but not any comments. Any way to turn on notifications for this?

Also, is there any way to follow an account from WriteFreely? (I'm interested, because it would in theory allow me to follow BridgyFed, and make the posts visible on BlueSky.)

Are these limitations of the platform? Or is there a setting somewhere I missed?

@bhaugen @yunohost @_elena @writefreely @ajsadauskas@blog.sadauskas.id.au It looks like there's two places in the settings that you need to change.

First, in the top right menu, go to customize, make sure publicity is set to unlisted, and then go to Updates and make sure the Federation checkbox is switched on.

Once you're in customize, if you have admin access, go to the WriteFreely menu at the top right, select Admin Dashboard, and then Settings. (If you're on WriteAs, this menu might not be visible?)

On this page, there's a checkbox marked Federation. Make sure it's on, and click save settings.

The other thing you can try is go to one of your blog posts. Click on the date, so it's just that blog post. Copy the URL and paste it into Mastodon and see if it appears.

@AJ Sadauskas
Is there any way to make the full post text visible on Mastodon?

No, and Mastodon and Rochko's stubbornness are to blame. Long story involving Mastodon and Hubzilla in a time when these two were the only Fediverse projects with ActivityPub support and quite a bit of head-butting between Rochko and Mike Macgirvin. If you want me to retell it, ask.

I can see who's following the blog, but not any comments. Any way to turn on notifications for this?

WriteFreely doesn't have any support for comments. You literally can't comment on WriteFreely posts at all. It's planned for some point in the future, but it isn't even on the short-term to-do list.

Also, is there any way to follow an account from WriteFreely? (I'm interested, because it would in theory allow me to follow BridgyFed, and make the posts visible on BlueSky.)

No because you can't see anyone else's content in your WriteFreely account anyway. WriteFreely is exclusively for publishing.

If you need something for long-form blogging with all bells & whistles and then some, and support for comments, and a built-in file space (you haven't asked, but just you wait until you want to post something with images for the first time), and that can follow others, and whose posts show up on Mastodon as something else than links (albeit butchered if you have embedded images or a table or so because Mastodon staunchly refuses to render either)...

...take a look at the streams repository. What's in there can work both as a Facebook replacement and as a full-blown blogging engine. It has quite a bit of a learning curve due to its features and its privacy and security focus (again, it isn't a purist, one-trick-pony blogging platform), but it's quite capable, to say the least.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Streams #(streams) #Blogging
Codeberg.orgstreamsConsent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.

@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net @yunohost @_elena @writefreely @ajsadauskas@blog.sadauskas.id.au I haven't, but I'm considering it. I'm looking for a developer focused instance. There are a few, but they appear to be invite only.