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Welcome to all our new writers! 👋 Glad you've found our little spot in the fediverse.

If you ever need help, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else in the community. Also: an avatar, bio, and post will go a long way toward helping you connect with more people 😊

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Sometimes you want to take a picture, capture how the morning light looks filtering through the trees; your cooled skin; the sound of birds.

But you can never smell the air in that photo. You can't look around to see the rest of the world from that spot you stood, capturing a split second of light.

The only way to remember it is to sit for a while; feel it as deeply as you can; accept that it'll never be as good as it is right now.

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Calamitous  

Hey all, good to be here. I'm a career programmer, but I've been writing on the side for a couple years.

Lately I've been working on a post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi comedy, which is a thinly-veiled way to tell some of the bizarre stories I've experienced as a contractor, in a meaningful and hopefully non-litigable way.

In my spare time I enjoy reading and metalworking.

Ask me anything! I probably won't answer in a satisfying way, but you're welcome to try!

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ploum  

salon.com/2020/06/20/were-losi

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Cloud68.co  

Happy to announce our partnership with @write_as and become the first trusted hosting provider for #WriteFreely.

cloud68.co/blog/announcements/

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anaeg  

Hello, strangers. I'm Ana Rosa, a brazilian young writer, who buy more books than can read - as any normal person does. Training my english, sorry for any mistakes. :)

I work as copywriter freelancer, and I'm currently studying archetypes, storytelling and tarot (?), for some side projects. Oh, and writing a fiction about angels, humans and all the things between.

I also have another "me" on mastodon, for general things. Thank you for accepting me here. Ahoy.

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Matt  

Social media has shown the need for different kinds of interactions around content online. But "likes" are cheap and poisonous, chat isn't connected to content, and all platforms still stop at: "here's all the replies" 🤷

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Matt  

Are there any blog commenting systems made for different kinds of conversations? E.g. "I enjoyed this." vs. "Could you clarify?" vs. "Here's an essay on why you're wrong..."

I feel like all systems are just a variation on: "here's a text box, and here's everything anyone has entered into it in relation to this post." (Decentralized version only adds: "here's what people said elsewhere.")

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Matt  

Nice, apparently now will notify someone of a mention when receiving an `Update` activity!

Just updated this page to mention my Masto account (write.as/matt/contact) and got this notification.

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Starting to get pieces of @draft_as in place as @submit_as develops.

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The other part is trying to normalize the @handle@instance.tld syntax with everyday users. Everyone knows how to mention "@handle". This could be a gentle way to introduce them to the idea that a "@handle" can exist on different sites.

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New idea for : linked mention support for non- platforms like Twitter.

This is a common pattern you see in the : "RT @author@twitter.com". Of course, Twitter doesn't speak AP. But why not at least bridge the gap for users and link to the profile?

Those are my ideas behind this latest pull request: writefreely.org/pull/319

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rob g.  

Good morning everyone, thank you for accepting my join application to this instance.

I am an active user of the facilities, a Staff member and vocal poster at Qoto.org, and now exploring yet another new place.

Joined here to be closer to the source of my favourite, awesome Write.Freely platform. Thank you @matt for it and the Forums, and now the instance I join.

1 / 2 [... argh 500 chars sucks..]

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Darius Kazemi  

I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again: if you want some wholesome / nostalgic internet times, check out Wiby, the "Search Engine for the Classic Web". It's based on (moderated) user submissions of old school websites. Use #WibyFinds to post the good stuff you come across!!!

wiby.me/

I just found Zack's Snake Page, which is actually just a giant image with hot zones you can click to go to other images???

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deadsuperhero  
Okay, the new #Funkwhale channels feature is freaking awesome. I think there's more work to be done to make this more compatible with the rest of the fediverse, but I think this is a very promising opportunity for musicians to share their original works within the network.

New Funkwhale UI redesign looks great too!
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Matt  

Wrote an article for Glimmer the other week: "Building a More Privacy-Centric Web"

glitch.com/glimmer/post/write-

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Wrote an article for Glimmer the other week: "Building a More Privacy-Centric Web"

glitch.com/glimmer/post/write-

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Muse & Reason  

The New Commons robert.winter.ink/the-new-comm

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Some of those reports:

twitter.com/Defxious/status/12
twitter.com/syounyochin/status
twitter.com/jjaehwin/status/12
twitter.com/panggilajasapi/sta

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Getting reports from people in Indonesia that they're unable to access Write.as... Things look fine from where we are, but they're getting this error: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Anyone have experience verifying if this is indeed censorship happening, and if so, working around it? Retoots appreciated!

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Gevalt  

Join us on, gulp, Facebook for a Live writing session today (and every Thursday) at 3:30 p.m. at facebook.com/geoffreygevalttel Fun, supportive, no-guilt session designed to clear your mind and your soul.

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Matt  

Write.as Organizations write.as/matt/write-as-organiz

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