I have a personal website that is just a landing page made with Carrd. I’ve been interacting on the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky so far). I would like to consolidate my public Fediverse persona, write a little bit longer form blogging, and be able to have a central spot for my pictures and posts.
I’m looking at using write.as or micro.blog on a subdomain of my personal website. What are people’s experience with these two platforms and are there other good ones?
Has anyone found a good workflow for consolidating personas? I know you can use mastodon logins on Pixelfed. Is there a scenario where I just have one server login and tie everything to that?
Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.
I’m currently using write.as. It’s a pretty bare-bones setup when in single user mode and doesn’t give the kind of list view you might expect for readers - it loads everything onto a single page. I’m considering maybe using Ghost, which is another big name in the federated blogging space. Write.as doesn’t come with comments by default, but I was able to add cactus-comments, but it was a huge PITA because it requires a matrix server.
I do, however, like the minimalist UI aspect of it. You can take a look at mine here. I was also able to get around the list thing by using pinned posts, which stay at the top, so I made an about, a directory, and subscribe pages.
Write.as will post to mastodon under an account that it creates and I have myself on mastodon as a verified owner of the blog site.
Ghost Activitypub support is still in the making unfortunately. You can selfhost ghost already and if you check out the latest version you also have AP, but they said it’s not stable yet and might break. Eagerly waiting for them to finish.