Hi everyone! I wanted to know what people thought of WriteFreely and Plume and which one you would recommend for a personal blog. Also, if you can, could you suggest some instances? From looking, I often come across instances with strangely little on their about page, and can’t work out who administrates them. Thanks!
Any blogging platform supports RSS. So you can subscribe to them just fine.
What federation brings to the table is the back-channel, i.e. comments. If you don’t want that, you don’t want federation IMHO.
You can federate just fine. I’ve followed and boosted WriteFreely articles on Mastodon.
Yes I know. But you can also just post a link on Mastodon to the blog (via an RSS bot for example). If there are no federated comments, it is functionally identical.
(Just to mention it:) writefreely only publishes articles via Activitypub but does not have a way to view replies on an article (yet?).
Yes, exactly. Personally, I think Plume does it the right way here.