#freemium — Public Fediverse posts

And now a reminder - WriteFreely instead of...

- The overhead you may not be wanting to inherit with #WordPress
- The #Freemium model constantly pressuring you to subscribe to hosted #Ghost

For super serious #ActivityPub powered publishing those two seem to be the only options that come to mind. Certainly, masto is and always has been little more than a joke in that regard, although many have tweaked it to introduce certain improvements; and Between Ghost and WordPress there's truly very little in the way of serious options beyond the #Fediverse where you push out monolithic or RSS syndicated blogs in the world of FOSS.

As many of you are actually aware, #WriteFreely has, in their own words, been there since the beginning. But for some reason, it often seems to slip the mind of the people it most serves to deliver for.

Since it costs nothing to get started, let's begin by changing that and spin ourselves up an instance, shall we?

You can #self_host or be #freely_hosted, and yes, if you later opt for a subscription based, competently managed, hosted solution you are directly contributing to the development team and future progress of the project.

A Fantastic place to start is HERE

#tallship #FOSS #Publishing #Blog Write.As @updates

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RE: https://write.as/api/posts/ul3ls9vpogr02t68

Ghost is an excellent platform for publishing. I used it a lot a few years back for publishing articles when it was headless - that was optimum. Compose at your leisure within your own local environment, then push it up to your own self-hosted instance.

Unfortunately, they let it fall into disrepair, left it unmaintained, and last I checked the Ghost desktop was nowhere to be found in the repo. One of the maintainers explained to me that they just didn't have anyone willing to maintain the app and so I migrated away from the platform myself.

Integrating #ActivityPub is a fantastic idea, and will give #WriteAs a run for the money, but the reasons for leaving #Drupal and #WordPress to publish on #Ghost aren't so compelling with editors like #Gutenberg exist now, along with the #WordPress_ActivityPub plugin.

I'm going to give it another looksee to review what happened to the elegant, #headless nature that Ghost used to espouse as one of it's key ingredients for using it in the first place. I just hope that they don't try to go the way of #OOo, #Bacula, and other #FOSS projects that were forked, and somewhat marginalized, as a result of decisions to force community versions into #Freemium products that lacked most functionality without fee based subscriptions. Lord knows, the last time I checked their managed hosting solutions for Ghost it certainly wasn't even competitively priced.

With this newfound revelation in the form of some kind of epiphany, let's hope their commitment to #Fediverse and FOSS exceeds that of their grasp for excessive monetization.

#tallship

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RE: https://todon.eu/users/MediaActivist/statuses/112302834109929024

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