writefreely Notes
The writefreely app is a service on the fediverse. It is a distributed long form blogging service. Each instance is independently own but they all use the ActivePub protocol. There are only a few open instances where an individual can sign up and start a blog. Most of the server are closed.
The goal of writefreely is to provide a home for long form text. The text may contain images but those images must be served from another service like nextcloud.
interaction
- writefreely main interaction with the fediverse is it can send a notice to followers
- It is important that you have data backup on your own server at your homebase. One that you control and have physical access too.
misc notes
- The writefreely will make a toot on mastodon but it only the title and it uses the article's publish date.
- writefreely draft does not use the custom css specified for the site.
- custom css is only used after a draft has been published.
- nextcloud image links are to a download page, append /preview to the url to get the actual image.
- using the <–/more-> trick to cause a read more link to be created.
- Hash tags are supported, at # in front of any word.
Thing I've heard about that need study.
- the use of pinned pages
- ¿is there a rss feed?
AJ Brown, in a past life, was an embedded systems engineer(digital design engineer) in silicon valley. He worked on new product designs ranging from hard-disk controllers, communication protocols, and link encryptors to simple battery monitors for electric cars.
A few years ago he gave his spot on the freeway to someone else and left:–) Now days he is more interested in sailing, building out his live-in bus for travel and supporting the idea of the full-circle of food; grow, harvest, store, prepare, preserve and propagate. He is still a strong supporter of Free/Libre Open Source Software[F/LOSS] and is willing to help most anyone in their quest to use it more efficiently.