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.