I decided to re-write and republish this, so the post can focus on the wider picture of what the Fediverse is.
This has been undertaken following comments / conversations on #Mastodon about people not actually referring to the #Fediverse directly, of which #Mastodon is one of many services. A different video is presented below, along with an infographic and #Hastags to the services listed This list has also been added to the #index page.
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Getting started is easy, if you need help please get in touch. I can be contacted on the fediverse via @zleap@qoto.org
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How to follow this blog
You can follow this blog by checking back daily or if you are on a ActivityPub enabled fediverse instance, for example, Mastodon, you can follow
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Write_As instances
If you would like an easy to use, hassle free blogging platform that respects your freedoms then Write_as may be useful for your needs.
Write_as is software that has lots of features to help you set up a small, lightweight blog, supports multiple blogs from one user account. It also supports ActivityPub to facilitate federation.
You can either self host or join an one of many existing instances:-
WriteAs uses Markdown to add styles to the pages, e.g to make text bold, underlined or add pictures. You can also embed HTML code blocks. This is how this page displays the video below.
There is a video below, hosted on Peertube, to explain more.
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SnapAs : Adding photos to WriteFreely Blogs
As this blog is powered using WriteFreely, I have just found another service that is designed to complement adding pictures to blogs, making this process very simple.
SnapAs allows you to drag and drop a photo and provide the markdown code so that you just copy / paste in this to your blog.
There used to be a tutorial, but this is no longer available, there may be others on peertube.
The video is hosted on Peertube which is a federated and decentralised video sharing platform. There is a video here to explain more about this.
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Creating a write freely blog
Creating a blog post on a writefreely instance is a case of:
Logging in to your account, after which you are simply presented with your page where you can start typing.
Add a title, then the main body of your post.
I sometimes add a list of links, which relate to any items mentioned in my post. I then add a list of tags. Under that I usually have a sort of footer, which has copyleft information both in text and a graphic.
To add a picture you need to add some markdown which points to the location of the image.
For the purpose of this, I am creating a draft, however once the post is finished, clicking on draft at the top, will allow me to 'publish to' a blog hosted by my account. Write freely allows for multiple blogs from the same login. Which is helpful for different subjects or topics for example.
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