writefreely, the fediverse, and blogs as such
What actually is a weblog?
I have the feeling it should have a comment system, but that of course isn’t necessarily part of the definition.
Wikipedia tells me:
“informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.”
Eh, nothing about comments.
But I would say that certainly comments are important. And when I heard about writefreely and how it was federated with the rest of the fediverse I thought that would be the case.
Nope. It basically just provides a link for readers. It neither gives the post, nor does it allow reading any comments left on the activitypub post. In effect it’s about the same as an rss-to-fedi portal, just integrated into a very stripped down blog engine.
I don’t see it. I don’t really understand how it is being mentioned in the same breath as mastodon or pixelfed. Even wordpress has a better integration into the fediverse. (by now that is)
Mind you, I wouldn’t mind actually using writefreely, because it IS looking quite nice. It just doesn’t do what I thought it was supposed to.
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