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howdoyouspell.cool is an open community of writers who value privacy, autonomy, and creative writing – and, most importantly, we reject corporate interests and monetary incentives. We aim to be a no-pressure, polite community of writers from all walks of life, away from the ten-thousand-word user agreements of corporate-controlled platforms. If you consider yourself even the most amateur of writers, you’re welcome here. Too often, writers leave their work languishing in a folder somewhere – this community aims to change that by providing a safe space for expression without fear of ridicule or some big-word conglomerate stealing your words to power a fake-sentient SQL table.

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[–] CaptainSpaceman 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this community aims to change that by providing a safe space for expression without fear of ridicule or some big-word conglomerate stealing your words to power a fake-sentient SQL table.

How do you ensure that?

[–] mecfs 5 points 5 months ago

As far as I know if it is on the open web, no way to ensure.

Robots.txt can be configured but is not always followed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If I am a reader, can I leave comments on blogs/stories as it's part of fediverse?

[–] jqubed 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I haven’t heard of Write Freely; looks like it’s kind of an open source Medium alternative?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

and it's a part of Fediverse, so you can follow the blogs from your Mastodon account. and I think a reply from Mastodon will show up as a comment under the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@jqubed

@buru5 @fediverse , I guess the best answer to the question is on their site : https://writefreely.org/about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have my own self-hosted blog. Is there a way to publish my blog to the fediverse and have its own fediverse server?

I know I can technically just post a link to my blog posts on mastodon or something, but is there another way to do it directly?

[–] warmaster 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that on WordPress or Ghost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No it's just a static site I built, mostly using eleventy static site generator

[–] warmaster 2 points 5 months ago

I believe you could convert the entries to RSS and then use one of the tools available to publish RSS to Lemmy.

[–] joel_feila 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] buru5 1 points 5 months ago

anything goes

[–] Impronoucabl -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What's a good reason to sign up for yet another indie writing platform? My time is limited, and there are plenty of alternatives.

[–] buru5 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

for you, none; why would you sign up for more than one to begin with? this is for anyone who hasn't signed up for multiple yet-another-indie-writing platforms and is looking for a federated write freely instance to join (considering write.as is closed for registration).

[–] Impronoucabl 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would you sign up for more than one to begin with?

If it's got a good new feature, audience, promise of service, or something to distinguish it from shouting into the void.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s like saying a Lemmy instance needs new features to distinguish it.

[–] Impronoucabl 2 points 5 months ago

Well, yes.

It doesn't have to be a technical feature though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Write freely is a federated platform