The piece of software behind 1312 Blogs
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The choice of Writefreely over, say, WordPress, was done for two main reasons:
- Writefreely is very lightweight and can run on minimal hardware (eg. a Raspberry Pi), lowering our participation to the mostly neo-colonial, anti-ecologicial tech industry.
- Writefreely can interoperate with the main open communications systems: free web (no tracking or forced registration), RSS readers, Emails and ActivityPub.
And while WriteFreely is very lightweight it still allows users to customize their blogs with CSS.
Finally, the very lean, distraction-free editor is much appreciated when writing posts. Though it helps to memorize the markdown syntax first.
For more technical details about how this server was setup, please look at our system admin's blog
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