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How do you actually find fediverse bloggers

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?

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irelephant [he/him]🍭

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]
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mbirth 🇬🇧

You can configure it to make your author page also your ActivityPub profile (compatible with Mastodon). Once people subscribe to that author account, they will get notified of new posts and see them in their timeline. But IIRC there’s no support for historic entries, i.e. people will only see new entries from the moment they subscribed onwards.

E.g. my blog is available as @mbirth@blog.mbirth.uk within the fediverse. If you go there, you’ll most probably see an empty profile. Only when you follow that account, you’ll see future entries pop up in your timeline.

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Remy Rose

Wafrn, the social network that respects you

Wafrn is the main wafrn instance, a tumblr inspired federated social network that can connect with the fediverse. Follow your friends from mastodon, misskey, akkoma, and, if its your thing, threads too
app.wafrn.net
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julian

Re: How do you actually find fediverse boggers

@raginghungrypanda@lemm.ee for discovery, the best looking up-and-coming solution is Ghost. They've been around for a decade plus, but they're actively working on their ActivityPub integration.

Early looks at their discovery reader is really promising. A separate tab for "Article" type posts, and another for "feed" type posts.

A lot of the other long form softwares are aligning on the standard that Ghost will try to set... NodeBB, WriteFreely, WordPress, etc. They've all signalled compatibility with each other, which is great!

For more, see @index@activitypub.ghost.org

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RagingHungryPanda

Oh Ghost looks really nice. It's pretty slick. It seems to be geared slightly more for creators than consumers in the initial UI, but it's not hard to start digging around.

It'd be nice if I could sign in as a user and save people to follow, but at least I can bookmark them and add them to rss. I like it - this is a great source!

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