<![CDATA[This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard.]]>This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard. Text was ActivityPub's first real workload, but these platforms didn't all arrive at federation the same way.

Ghost: a UK non-profit that funds Fedify (by @hongminhee) the framework its federation is built on. it's a publisher and a fediverse client at once, with an inbox as well as an outbox. Our newsletter is also powered by it, so @index is followable from any Mastodon app right now.

WriteFreely: one primary maintainer, Matt Baer (@matt), roughly 1,400 of 1,900+ commits, going since 2015. Funded by his own hosted product, Write.as.

Micro.blog: a Kickstarter By Manton Reese (@manton) that funded the platform before it had a single user. POSSE, native ActivityPub, and native Bluesky, no bridge.

Plume: a simple platform that also supported collaborative multi-author blogs. But no longer actively developed - it recommends WriteFreely and WordPress instead of itself.

WordPress: built-in ActivityPub (using plugin by Matthias Pfefferle - @pfefferle) plus a native AT Protocol plugin and real moderation tooling.

Flipboard: curating other people's writing rather than hosting its own.

Part 3 of the "Fediverse Beyond Mastodon" series.

https://federatedmind.com/the-written-fediverse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fediverse-beyond-mastodon-3

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/topic/73f61bef-8157-446d-a7c2-9cfc1e5d7786/this-week-we-cover-the-writing-layer-of-the-fediverse-ghost-writefreely-micro.blog-plume-wordpress-and-flipboard.RSS for NodeFri, 31 Jul 2026 22:05:34 GMTMon, 06 Jul 2026 19:15:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard. on Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:39:37 GMT]]>@joho Thanks for letting me know - it looks like an interesting project. I see your own website runs on tinymash. I'll be sure to check it out when I get some time. Following you to get updates on your cool project. 👍

]]>https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://techhub.social/ap/users/116401123697311158/statuses/116875668826344079https://wanderingadventure.party/post/https://techhub.social/ap/users/116401123697311158/statuses/116875668826344079Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:39:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This week, we cover the writing layer of the fediverse: Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard. on Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:22:33 GMT]]>@federatedmind tbf, tinymash does have native activitypub / fediverse posting too :-)

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