i’m looking for a place/means/medium for texts that i write. content is essays on topics that i find worthy writing about with hints towars philosophy (i guess).
twenty years ago the right answer to my question would have been a (we-)blog - what’s the current day equivalent for such a venture?
optimally, a solution would neither be based on lock-ins, data collection/aggregation or other shady business and would be freely (e.g. in a web browser, no login/registration required) and easily accessible.
Wordpress recently started offering fediverse federation. That it exists is the sum total of what I know about it, but I can see the potential.
i used wordpress for over a decade but left last year when the AI hype started ramping up and there were reports that even selecting the option to turn off post scraping doesn’t work because the bots blocked by the site’s robots.txt doesn’t update.
basically: wordpress doesn’t let you control AI scraping so is it still the best platform those of us worried about that are gonna be able to find?
Writefreely is a fantastic option. Your posts and profile integrate perfectly with the Fediverse right out of the box, it’s nice to look at and really nice to use. It’s also FOSS. RSS is supported by default. If you want to tinker with it you can add custom CSS and it’s self-hostable. I host my own instance and it’s by far the simplest & easiest federated software I’ve run. An absolute peach - highly recommend!
WriteFreely and Plume are based on ActivityPub and can be followed from the Fediverse (in addition to RSS of course)
I used to prefer Plume because it’s written in Rust, but, well, it seems like it isn’t maintained right now, so WriteFreely is currently the better option
I don’t see anyone open for no cost right now (at least not in English). Might see about self-hosting if it’ll run on a raspberry pi.
Something really weird and interesting is Gemini Gemlogs. Technically not WWW, but still an internet platform.
Something more normal and accessible is Hugo.
i’ve been into gemini and similar tech - and i really love it! did actually consider it, although i’m not sure whether it’s an obstace for less tech-savvy people to reach my content?
Hugo looks promising - especially since i’m somewhat critical of huge (js heavy), dynamic websites
ClassicPress is WordPress without Gutenberg, if you’re used to that interface. It was based on 4.9 but now on current releases.
Whatever Molly White uses for https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ is something she wrote and was available on one of her accounts.
I’m looking for a similar thing that absolutely excludes all scraping, bots, search engines, etc. I think the only way we get the web back is cordoning the leeches off to one side. Let them drown in each other’s AI regurgitation.
