tallship, to foss

If Substack is perfect for your needs then use that. Your problem with substack prolly isn't who else uses it, but rather, that you yourself are calling a proprietary, privacy disrespecting deprecated monolithic silo a "Perfect solution".

Instead of doing what's right, and for the right reasons, you eschew dogfooding on #FOSS when you should be championing it, and call a professional data mining haven perfect, when it is anything but.

Well, you're already on the Fediverse, so you should know better, but I'll dispense with the lecture now and point out a few good FOSS solutions that are Fediverse powered (and one that isn't, but still rocks as a publishing platform) for you:

  • Option #1, #WriteFreely, which you can find over at its git repo under https://gitHub.com/writefreely/writefreely.
  • Option #2, deploy yourself a #WordPress site, Then install the #ActivityPub plugin - the latest release publishes into the Fediverse and allows any Fediverse account to reply/comment threads natively - like I'm responding now. It also allows anyone on the Internet to join the discussions as well. WordPress has many options for subscriber lists, Etc., as well as #paywalled #digital_downloads, if you like.
  • Option #3, #Mitra is a Fediverse publishing platform that currently supports paid subscriptions for Authors: https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list - pick one that has open registrations or self-host yourself, like all of the other solutions here :)
  • If you're really talking about maintaining subscribers lists, but especially Having a subscriber list and building it up, then most ignorant folks would recommend HubSpot - but they would be wrong, because you can get the same powerful inbound marketing solution / #CRM, only better, for #FREE (That's a bare minimum savings of over $500/month)!!! So install #Mautic and let it do what it does, which you can get here: https://www.mautic.org/download/source-code and then after that, use it in conjunction with the following FOSS application that was tailor made for exactly what you're asking for...
  • #Ghost is FOSS, and in conjunction with an inbound marketing platform like Mautic is the perfect dynamic duo - like Batman and Robin. But even better, is that I'm going to point you towards a #HowTo that is an actual cookbook #tutorial written by someone expressing the same lamentations as yourself, and here's the exact solution they've provided for you:

https://www.readonlymemo.com/substack-to-ghost-migration-guide-in-2024-setting-up-mailgun-and-cloudflare/

By the way, your Mautic server also integrates directly with #MailGun (or Sendgrid, SendinBlue, SparkPost, etc.) to complete your transactional email system that will tell you when each and every recipient received, viewed (and or how long) your emails, as well as how many times they looked at those emails, with a bunch of other tools as well.

I hope that helps, and I'm very glad that you came to your senses about not using a privacy disrespecting, proprietary closed source solution like Substack - besides, registering your own domain name would have hidden the fact that you were using substack anyway, so it's about YOU doing the right thing the right way. Please choose your software in the future based upon the freedoms and ethics it offers in serving you and your customers. There's evil people everywhere, and the smart ones are using FOSS too - not substack.

#tallship #publishing #subscriptions #inbound_marketing h/t to @marathon for boosting your post so it had much greater visibility across the Fediverse.

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RT: https://kolektiva.social/users/Audr3y/statuses/111858776974817210

writefreely, to random

I wanted to get SMTP support (https://writefreely.org/tasks/905) added before releasing #WriteFreely v0.15, but I can't access the machine I was developing it on to finish it up.

So unfortunately, for this release we'll only have Mailgun support. But I'll get SMTP support in the following release, so you can use any email provider you want to send newsletters, password reset emails, etc.

#WriteFreelyDev

matt, to random

Made it to Brussels for #FOSDEM! Will be hacking on some #WriteFreely stuff today, but looking forward to seeing everyone and going to some talks tomorrow.

ia, to random
@ia@mastodon.online avatar

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." ―Terry Pratchett

#WriteFreely #iAWriter

fediversereport, to random
@fediversereport@mastodon.social avatar

New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 51

In this week's news:

  • WordPress ActivityPub plugin gets updated to v2.0
  • Bluesky hits 3m accounts, invites going away soon
  • Podcasting news (including WeDistribute launching a new podcast!)
  • And a whole load of other news items, bridges, more information on Thread's roadmap, updates to ActivityPods, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-51/

darnell,
@darnell@one.darnell.one avatar
pmakholm, to random
@pmakholm@fosstodon.org avatar

As an experiment I would like to try to maintain a blog by exporting threads from Mastodon to a more static format.

I hoped I could find a CLI tool resembling MastoReader, but no luck. Turns out it was really easy to do in quick and dirty Perl. So this is my new blogging pipeline:

https://gist.github.com/pmakholm/e841e3e5686f2751bfde2e33ef398e56

#Perl #WriteFreely

sb, to random
@sb@fed.sbcloud.cc avatar

Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!

We can help you transition away from:

  • Substack
  • Twitter
  • Facebook/Instagram
  • Dropbox, iCloud, etx
  • Amazon/Audible
  • Google
  • Almost anything else!

You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!

Let us help empower you and your community!

#fediHelp #cutTheCord #deCorporatise

sb,
@sb@fed.sbcloud.cc avatar

@richlitt
The main and probably easiest to transition to would be #Ghost. You can move to ghost.org, or another 3rd-party host, or host it yourself!

Migration guide: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/

Official site: https://ghost.org/

There is also #Buttondown which I haven't checked out myself yet, but it's the next most popular alternative.

Migration guide: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-migrate-newsletter-substack-to-buttondown/

Official site: https://buttondown.email/

If you're not too concerned with the monetization aspects and into something clean & barebones, you could also consider #writeFreely (I use this myself).

https://writefreely.org/

#Wordpress is also an option, but I'm hesitant to recommend it, as #wp is a whole thing in it's own.

I hope that helps!

editora, to random Spanish

Habemus #EscrituraSocial :) Una instancia de #WriteFreely en español, donde otros idiomas como euskera, catalán, gallego, asturiano, aragonés o aranés también son bienvenidos.

Se trata de un proyecto dentro de la comunidad #LecturaSocial. Si ya sois de la comunidad, os llegará en breve un email. Algunas personas que me habéis preguntado ya tenéis la invitación.

Si todavía no sois de #LecturaSocial, podéis elegir uno de nuestros planes en Ko-fi. Aquí toda la info:

https://escritura.social/

tezoatlipoca, to wordpress
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to avatar

Welp.

<- naziphiles

Whose next on the blog platform train?

.com (the hosted WP service) has shockingly similar TOs about NOT restricting hate speech. https://wordpress.com/tos/

That sucks.

at least has a fairly comprehensive anti-hate speech policy (dunno how their enforcement is) - https://policy.medium.com/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4

Wheras you can self-host a Markdown driven blog on a toaster oven, just saying.

editora, to random Spanish

Dentro de muy poquito tendremos los registros abiertos (previa suscripción) en #EscrituraSocial, una nueva comunidad de blogs para que podáis tener vuestro propio blog minimalista y federado.

https://escritura.social/about

La idea es que con la misma suscripción para #LecturaSocial se ofrezca también un #WriteFreely. Si solo queréis uno de los dos servicios podéis quedaros con el que os vaya mejor.

De lo que se trata es de ir ofreciendo más servicios dentro de una misma comunidad.

gebrauchskunst, to Facebook German
@gebrauchskunst@layer8.space avatar

https://cohost.org/Janet/post/1952079-ok-nun-auch-auf-deu

Seit seinen Anfangstagen hat penibel darauf geachtet, alle... zu .
Der einfachste Weg das zu erreichen, ist es, Firmen zu kaufen, die eines Tages zur Konkurrenz werden könnten.

Aber das ist nicht käuflich. Das Fediverse ist eine .. , , , , oder..

Man kann ein nicht kaufen.

Aber es gibt einen anderen Weg:
es irrelevant machen..

..mit getan.

fediverseobserver, to fediverse

Found 7 new servers and 13 servers de-listed since 1 hours ago. Check out the Monthly and Daily Stats by software or server or the entire fediverse.

24,522 servers checked. 13,782,741 Total Users, 1,736,292 Monthly Active Users today vs 1,736,015 yesterday for the entire fediverse.

New #fediverse servers found:

social.talkingroom.xyz a #misskey server from Private
pixelfed.nakamura.io a #pixelfed server from United States
oneforthecode.com a #writefreely server from Private
bitforged.social a #mastodon server from United States
peertube.zetamc.net a #peertube server from United States
peertube.corrigan.xyz a #peertube server from Germany
mylocalnet.xyz a #mastodon server from Australia

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

fediverseobserver, to fediverse

Found 5 new servers found and 11 servers de-listed since 1 hours ago. Check out the Monthly and Daily Stats by software or server or the entire fediverse.

24,523 servers checked. 13,782,741 Total Users, 1,736,292 Monthly Active Users today vs 1,736,015 yesterday for the entire fediverse.

New #fediverse servers found:

oneforthecode.com a #writefreely server from Private
bitforged.social a #mastodon server from United States
peertube.zetamc.net a #peertube server from United States
peertube.corrigan.xyz a #peertube server from Germany
mylocalnet.xyz a #mastodon server from Australia

De-Listed servers: fludiblu.xyz
mastodon.baconpotato.net
matrix.gb.net
kevin.paris
social.ac-verne.fr
social.kotwica.me
mk.wytch.space
0xv.eu
mcw.social
youshould.uwu.today
social.ourpublicassembly.com

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

mgorny, to fediverse Polish
@mgorny@pol.social avatar

Tak więc #WriteFreely nie obsługuje komentowania blogów. Natomiast implementuje #ActivityPub, więc jest częścią #Fediwersum. Tak więc, możemy obserwować blogi przy pomocy innych kont wew Fediwersum, i możemy też odpowiadać na posty na blogach, czyli je komentować.

Tyle że WriteFreely nie obsługuje odpowiedzi, więc autor postu jest wykluczony z dyskusji (a nawet nie ma świadomości, że jest jakaś dyskusja). Zdaje się, że WriteFreely nie partycypuje również w federacji odpowiedzi, więc dyskusja sama w sobie jest rozbita pomiędzy serwerami, a poszczególni jej uczestnicy mogą widzieć różne jej części.

Wydaje się to dość dziwne.

mstankiewicz, to random Polish
@mstankiewicz@pol.social avatar

Jakiś czas temu napisałem na @mstankiewicz wpis na temat aplikacji #WriteFreely. Dosłownie przed chwilą dowiedziałem się, że wyszła nowa wersja programu o numerze 6, a w związku z tym przez cały tydzień trwa promocja na to oprogramowanie — -40%!
Podrzucam Wam linka do promocji: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper/mw640

#niesponsorowane, ale wspomnę, że kilka miesięcy temu otrzymałem darmową licencję Pro na oprogramowanie, jednak nie ma to żadnego wpływu na pojawienie się tego posta czy moje opinie na temat aplikacji.

strypey, to Matrix
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

First time I've seen Cactus Comments deployed in the wild;

https://wrily.foad.me.uk/cactus-comments-in-writefreely

It's a matrix-based comment system that can be added to static sites. In this case, a WriteFreely blog.

#matrix #CactusComments #WriteFreely

max, to random

does anyone know of any good fedi front end clients that are tailored towards long form blog posts? i want to turn todiy into a multi media platform, and not just microblogging, but i don't wanna have to run a separate server/subdomain for every format! I think i like the idea of using as a backend because it seems pretty flexible! i dont want my users to need a bazillion accounts lol. Im looking at , and it would be awesome to use its front end somehow.

socialnetwork, to random Italian
@socialnetwork@mastodon.uno avatar

Aggiornata la tabella:

"chi può seguire chi nel Fediverso" di @edosecco

:fediverso: https://cryptpad.devol.it/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/fZofggsebYXPDPQAaqCKmzR41HAMxhubZc2WIV+NvQs/embed/

Aggiunte la 'seguibilità' di Plume.
Diversamente da Writefreely, a poter essere seguito è il profilo che pubblica gli articoli invece del blog vero e proprio, ma pare che da Friendica si possa aggiungere anche quest'ultimo.

Come sempre, se notate inesattezze o avete aggiunte da fare, fatecelo sapere.

#fediverso #Plume #Writefreely

underlap, to random
@underlap@fosstodon.org avatar

Ok. So I set up a writefreely single user instance, but I can't find it when I search for it from Mastodon, either by URL or fediverse handle. Any ideas?

#askfedi #WriteFreely

bobdendry, to Blog

So I've decided to start that #blog I was pondering a couple of weeks ago. I'm probably going to go with #WriteFreely due to it being #Foss, #Federated and #SelfHosted. Unfortunately, not the simplest thing to set up from the #Docker image available (I think I should be able to tweak the Dockerfile to fix that though)

to3k, to random Polish
@blog.tomaszdunia.pl avatar

🇵🇱 Nowy wpis na blogu! / 🇬🇧 New blog post!

Migracja WriteFreely.pl – FTdL + FreeDNS::42

#A #CAA #Cloudflare #DNS #DNSChecker #FreeDNS42 #FTdL #FundacjaTechnologieDlaLudzi #MX #NASK #Oracle #TXT #VPS #WriteFreely #YunoHost

Autor: @to3k

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/migracja-writefreelypl-freedns42/

mcfly, to random German
@mcfly@milliways.social avatar

anyone any experience with #writefreely and is willing to share that?

I am looking for something like a blogging software and after the experience with mastodon it would want it to be connected to the fediverse...

And no, i'd prefer not to run a wordpress (again).

mstankiewicz, to fediverse Polish
@mstankiewicz@pol.social avatar

Tydzień temu minął dokładnie rok, odkąd jestem na . Wow.
Pamiętam jak pierwszy raz przeczytałem o Mastodonie na jednym z popularnych polskich portali. Traktowałem go wtedy jako ciekawostkę, a nie jak moje przyszłe główne medium społecznościowe, które (według statystyk na moich sprzętach) używam o 83% częściej niż i dzięki któremu stworzyłem i uczestniczyłem w kilku ciekawych projektach.
Gdyby nie , nie wiedziałbym czym jest , nie korzystałbym z /kbin-a od @ernest, a co za tym idzie nie stworzyłbym też ! Zapewne nie używałbym też .pl i innych usług od @ftdl, nie przywróciłbym wraz z Wiktorem do życia @cesarstwokwadratowe, nie kontynuowałbym podcastu, nie założyłbym bloga na , nie zacząłbym uczyć się tworzyć rozszerzenia do przeglądarek, nie zrezygnowałbym z używania i ani nie poznał tylu wspaniałych ludzi!
Dziękuję Wam!

m0bi13, to random Polish
@m0bi13@pol.social avatar

📰 Jak aparat bezpieczeństwa kształtuje kontrolę czatu?

"Ukrywana dotąd przez Komisję Europejską lista, którą publikujemy, pokazuje, jak przedstawiciele tajnych służb i policji angażowali się w prace nad kontrolą czatu i to już na wczesnym etapie. Dużą rolę odegrała także przypominająca start-up organizacja Thorn.

Podczas pracy nad rozporządzeniem dot. kontroli czatu Komisja Europejska współpracowała ściśle nie tylko z kontrowersyjną organizacją Thorn, ale także z przedstawiciel(k)ami Europolu, australijskiej i hiszpańskiej policji oraz brytyjskiej agencji wywiadowczej GCHQ."

Całość:
https://writefreely.pl/didleth/h1jak-aparat-bezpieczenstwa-ksztaltuje-kontrole-czatu

Dziękuję @didleth za tłumaczenie i polecam jej bloga na tutaj -> @didleth

m0bi13,
@m0bi13@pol.social avatar

@didleth

Jeszcze raz dzięki za Twoje tłumaczenie 👍

Linki na #WriteFreely czyli w formacie #Markdown osadza się tak:

[Tytuł w nawiasach kwadratowych](https:// link_w_nawiasie.pl)

Bez odstępu pomiędzy.

@kuba @didleth

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