How do you actually find fediverse bloggers
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For microblogging, platforms like Mastodon with large instances. For long form blogging, there aren't any major platforms or instances yet. Discovery happens the old fashioned way with links.
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Feedle seems to be a normal RSS directory, but they make lots of noise on Mastodon - so I guess a lot of the blogs listed there will have some Fediverse representation as well…
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I haven't done that in 15 years XD
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There is [email protected], not limited to blog posts, but could fit
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Anyone had luck installing it recentlly? It worked one day and then some update got pushed (not to misskey/sharkey but something they depends on) and now I can't install it. I'm pretty sure its not exclusive to sharkey or my vps, saw people talking about it for unrelated stuff.
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This doesn't realllllyyyy answer your main question, but you got me curious how WriteFreely blog posts look from other platforms, and which ones can see them. So, I tried a few with this post of mine. Obviously some of these wouldn't make any sense, and also for some of them I may have just never figured out how to properly format the URL/search the way it wanted. But, here's what I got on every platform where I have an account:
- Mastodon: If you're logged in, it shows the title, any pictures, and a link to the full text. If you're logged out, it shows you a redirect option to the originating blog.
- Friendica: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with a "read more" accordion.
- WAFRN: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with all the pictures at the bottom.
- BookWyrm: Logged in, it can see the blog but can't retrieve the post. Logged out, it automatically redirects to the blog.
- NeoDB: Logged in, it can see the blog but not the post. Logged out, it asks you to log in.
- Lemmy: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
- PieFed: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
- Pixelfed: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
- Mobilizon: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
- Ibis: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
- Peertube: Can't seem to access the post or blog at all.
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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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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 @[email protected] 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.
