Onward, #fedivoyage! This is the last stop; afterwards @blinry and I will wrap it up and look back.
I will take a look at #plume, a "blogging application". This means it's an alternative to #writefreely, which we visited approximately one year ago. So let's see!
https://plume.fediverse.observer/list doesn't list a huge number of servers; and only 6 with more than 100 users. I took a look at those: The non-logged-in start page looks very similar on all of them; it is rather friendly, you can see the newest articles of the local and the federated feed:
https://fediverse.blog/
During fedivoyage (maybe even earlier) I learned to really love this kind of clean interface. I already feel well oriented.
The first post seems to be Russian news about a new irrigation device.
Also checking out the project website https://joinplu.me/
"Currently, Plume developers have less time and Plume is not actively maintained. New features may take time to be implemented. Could you consider similar purpose software: WriteFreely, WordPress with ActivityPub plugin and so on?"
:(
But at least the part about the federation (see image) sounds promising...
The remaining server is https://write.tchncs.de/ which is, who would have guessed, mostly in German. But it doesn't have open registration, so I'll probably settle for sometimes-indonesian otakufarms:
Yes, I created my #plume account on otakufarms. It works like writefreely: You have an account, with which you can start blogs, on which you can post blogposts. My account (Piko) has a blog (Fedivoyage), and I already started posting:
But the interesting part is how well it federates...
Using the mastodon syntax, my plume account should be something like this:
@[email protected] – which works for a lot my of other fedivoyage accounts... But it doesn't show up. I can think of three possible reasons: 1) plume doesn't federate well; 2) my Mastodon instance defederated with plume.otakufarms.com; 3) it's not synchronized yet, but will show up later. I don't find the latter very convincing, because I created that account some days ago...
Well, I'll finish my little tour of plume with that. It's nice, but as it's not actively developed right now and hasn't a ton of open instances, I'll stick to writefreely. Both of them have nice, clutter-free interfaces – writefreely is a bit too extreme on that, which even makes it a little worse for reading. I prefer plume's blog overview.
If anyone finds a way to follow certain blogs on plume, please tell me.
And this also concludes the #fedivoyage! (Or did we forget some important software?)
There will be a write-up soon, and maybe some talk on a CCC event...
Piko
Daniel Bohrer