I am looking for a general blogging platform that respects its users' freedoms and will host my content with some means of commenting on it. Mastodon obviously won't do, with its 500 character limit. Do you have any suggestions?
@amiloradovsky What is it and how does it work? XMPP looks like a messaging protocol to me, not a means for blogging...
Their project site (movim.eu) focuses on the actual features of the platform and barely mentions #XMPP at all, which is, AFAIK, the basis for their server-to-server (as is #ActivityPub, for example) and/or server-to-client communication protocol.
The platform is like Fediverse: you pick an instance, and can communicate with the users on other instances. The difference from Mastodon is that they seem to aim on replacing Google+, Blogger, and maybe Hangouts, not Twitter.
@amiloradovsky Yes, I have noticed that so far. Thanks!
@phoe
Also check out salut-a-toi.org, they seem to be doing something similar to Movim.
@amiloradovsky @phoe hi, I'm the developer of Salut à Toi if you have any question, and yes we are also doing decentralized blogging based on XMPP, and we are friends with Movim (and compatible).
@Goffi @amiloradovsky Hey! I'm just looking for a place where I do not have to self-host but where I am able to blog.
@phoe @amiloradovsky yes, and Movim is an option for that, you can use an existing instance.
SàT also, but our instance is currently for demo and not stable enough to recommand it yet.
Pleroma isn't limited to 500 chars - on my instance the limit is 5000. You could also check Plume, a federated replacement for medium.com. Or just phlog (gopher log) with links published to your fediverse TL to notify other fedizens about cool new stuff you've written.
@pfm I have never used Gopher. Are you aware of any Plume instances that I could join?
For details about #plume, ask @0x1C3B00DA.
I can also recommend listed (although it's not federated), the StandardNotes.org blog platform. Simple, easy to use. Check mine (only one post by now, link in my bio).
@pfm I think I will check out movim, actually. It seems to have what I want it to have.
👋 Hey! There's only one plume instance right now at https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/ but it isn't really ready for mainstream use, yet. If you're able to contribute, check out the repo at https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume
P.S. I'm not actually affiliated with the project. I've just been watching it closely and hope to contribute soon. @Bat is the lead dev.
@0x1C3B00DA @pfm @Bat Hey! Thanks for the quick response - I'll likely check out movim for now.
I definitely recommend giving it a try: open a terminal, open gopher://gopher.club with Lynx and start your journey. :)
@pfm oooooh, SDF! I need to check it out someday
@phoe I would suggest you try this: https://www.nursit.com/
(disclosure: I am an associate, yet this is where my blog has been for the last six years.) Respectful hosting, backups are complete with the full engine, plugins etc. #spip #php #sqlite
@notabene I'd need the website to be in English. It seems to be in French.
@phoe yah, sorry about that. Silly me 😕 You can go to https://www.spip.net/en_rubrique25.html for a whole English-speaking experience, spip is the open source project properly.
@phoe also: the whole spip cms speaks many languages as it was created by people who love the ideal that publishing should be easy for everyone, no matter your technical level or mother tongue.
@notabene Ooh. Nursit is an instance of SPIP?
@phoe More like a farm of independent spip sites, each with its own settings and backend language. I think I have 4 or 5 spips on Nursit.
@phoe you can use Pleroma or GNU Social, which has much larger limits.
You can also configure the message limit on Mastodon, but that's a source change I think.
@loke As I said elsewhere in the thread - I'd like to separate the concerns. I don't think Mastodon is a place for whole articles.
@phoe And you are right about that.
Do you want to self-host?
@loke Not really.
@loke I think I will check out Movim.
@phoe I use netlify.com to host my site . You then can use a static-site generator like hugo or jekyll
You can then write your articles with any editor and upload
There are some options for comments but you have to set that up yourself.
For a full package I liked gonevis.com
Web editor, themes, comments all ready yo use
@phoe
#Movim is one option.