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writefreely has a better UI for reading long form posts and is quite popular among the academic communities on the fediverse. personally I host a gitea server

writefreely has a better UI for reading long form posts and is quite popular among the academic communities on the fediverse. personally I host a gitea server and link to my longer documentation on my federated account. that gives me a bit more freedom to edit the content and easier to reference. matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content.

kitotik 6y ago
Could you expound on using matrix for long form content? I host a synapse homeserver, and feel like I’m not using it to its full potential.
- TheJoYo 6y ago
  The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that regard. I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.
- rglullis 6y ago
  AFAIK, there is no implementation beyond some proof-of-concepts, but the idea is that Matrix (via bridges) can receive and send activitypub updates and treat them as messages in a room. So you could follow and respond to people on a room and they would receive updates on their ActivityPub server. It This idea is not new, really. Movim (https://movim.eu https://movim.eu) is running a federated social network on top of XMPP for over a decade already.
moksha256 6y ago
> matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content. Can you elaborate on that a bit? In my experience, Matrix implementations tend to be Slack/IRC-style chat interfaces. Are you saying you find such interfaces to be good for long-form content, or are there other Matrix implementations that work out well for long-form content?
- TheJoYo 6y ago
  The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that reguard. I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.

kitotik 6y ago

Could you expound on using matrix for long form content? I host a synapse homeserver, and feel like I’m not using it to its full potential.

TheJoYo 6y ago
The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that regard. I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.
rglullis 6y ago
AFAIK, there is no implementation beyond some proof-of-concepts, but the idea is that Matrix (via bridges) can receive and send activitypub updates and treat them as messages in a room. So you could follow and respond to people on a room and they would receive updates on their ActivityPub server. It This idea is not new, really. Movim (https://movim.eu https://movim.eu) is running a federated social network on top of XMPP for over a decade already.

moksha256 6y ago

> matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content. Can you elaborate on that a bit? In my experience, Matrix implementations tend to be Slack/IRC-style chat interfaces. Are you saying you find such interfaces to be good for long-form content, or are there other Matrix implementations that work out well for long-form content?

TheJoYo 6y ago
The recent Bluesky report is hosted on matrix.org I don't host content on a matrix service but I imagine it's similar to Slack in that reguard. I could be way off on matrix' utility here as I don't use it for my primary publication.