registration is invite only at the moment, so please review the community guidelines then let me know if you’d like to join; i’ll send you an invite link.

howdoyouspell.cool is an open community of writers who value privacy, autonomy, and creative writing – and, most importantly, we reject corporate interests and monetary incentives. We aim to be a no-pressure, polite community of writers from all walks of life, away from the ten-thousand-word user agreements of corporate-controlled platforms. If you consider yourself even the most amateur of writers, you’re welcome here. Too often, writers leave their work languishing in a folder somewhere – this community aims to change that by providing a safe space for expression without fear of ridicule or some big-word conglomerate stealing your words to power a fake-sentient SQL table.

example blog: https://howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/

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    this community aims to change that by providing a safe space for expression without fear of ridicule or some big-word conglomerate stealing your words to power a fake-sentient SQL table.

    How do you ensure that?

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      As far as I know if it is on the open web, no way to ensure.

      Robots.txt can be configured but is not always followed.

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    If I am a reader, can I leave comments on blogs/stories as it’s part of fediverse?

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    I haven’t heard of Write Freely; looks like it’s kind of an open source Medium alternative?

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    I have my own self-hosted blog. Is there a way to publish my blog to the fediverse and have its own fediverse server?

    I know I can technically just post a link to my blog posts on mastodon or something, but is there another way to do it directly?

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    What’s a good reason to sign up for yet another indie writing platform? My time is limited, and there are plenty of alternatives.

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      for you, none; why would you sign up for more than one to begin with? this is for anyone who hasn’t signed up for multiple yet-another-indie-writing platforms and is looking for a federated write freely instance to join (considering write.as is closed for registration).

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        Why would you sign up for more than one to begin with?

        If it’s got a good new feature, audience, promise of service, or something to distinguish it from shouting into the void.