And now a reminder - WriteFreely instead of...
- The overhead you may not be wanting to inherit with
#WordPress- The
#Freemium model constantly pressuring you to subscribe to hosted
#GhostFor super serious
#ActivityPub powered publishing those two seem to be the only options that come to mind. Certainly, masto is and always has been little more than a joke in that regard, although many have tweaked it to introduce certain improvements; and Between Ghost and WordPress there's truly very little in the way of serious options beyond the
#Fediverse where you push out monolithic or RSS syndicated blogs in the world of FOSS.
As many of you are actually aware,
#WriteFreely has, in their own words, been there since the beginning. But for some reason, it often seems to slip the mind of the people it most serves to deliver for.
Since it costs nothing to get started, let's begin by changing that and spin ourselves up an instance, shall we?
You can
#self_host or be
#freely_hosted, and yes, if you later opt for a subscription based, competently managed, hosted solution you are directly contributing to the development team and future progress of the project.
A Fantastic place to start is HERE#tallship #FOSS #Publishing #Blog Write.As @updates⛵
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We now show alt text in the fediverse! Now alt text from photos in your blog posts gets sent out over ActivityPub, so your images are more accessible to your readers and followers there.
Alt text (meaning
alternative text) lets you add a description of any images you include in your posts. This is especially helpful to readers who are blind or have low vision, and use screen readers to consume your posts — instead of an empty space where your image is, the screen reader can read aloud the description you provide, giving them the full context of everything you’re sharing.
In our Plain Text editor, you can use standard Markdown to add alt text in the brackets before your image URL:
In our Rich Text editor, you can use the top menu option:
Insert → Image to find a
Description (alt text) field, where you can describe the image:
Alt text on Write.as has been here since day one. But especially with it carrying over to the fediverse now, we’d highly encourage writers to make an effort to include it more often in their posts!
#updates #fediverse #altText #accessibility
