Today is day 19 of my 29 Days of Open Source Alternatives series, where I'll be exploring open source alternatives to proprietary software in the c...
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Hey Bekah,
nice article!
If I can do a bit of a self plug, i'm working on an open source tool to allow users to publish to multiple platforms at the same time. You can find it here: github.com/magitools/magiedit
it is completely free (currently thinking on a pricing model for the public instance) and self-hostable
Very cool! I'll definitely check that out.
Very Enlightening text! I didn't know how to contribute to Forem, tks.
Nice summary of differences among the platforms. One minor issue in the monetization row of your table. For DEV, you list "web monetization (beta)". When that existed, it was via Coil. But Coil discontinued their web monetization service almost a year ago. DEV still has the settings in place for configuring payment pointer, but the service itself doesn't exist any longer. See the open letter explaining on the Coil homepage linked above.
Thanks for the info! I didn't realize that since it was still in my settings.
Coil shut down about a year ago. It might be that DEV didn't notice so the settings are still there. Or it might be that DEV deliberately kept the settings for now because there are efforts by others to bring it back. For example this article indicates that the Chromium development team is planning to integrate web monetization into the Chromium browser, which will bring that functionality directly to Chromium based browsers like Chrome and Edge. And from that article it looks like they are planning to use the same html tag in page head for the payment pointers. So if they keep the settings in place it might just start working again if Chromium's plans are implemented.
Thanks for the info!
The real solution of course is not to choose any of them, have full control of your content by self hosting and then cross post to multiple sources using automation
Is that what you're doing? I'd love to know how you're automating that.
It was when I dabbled in this, but that was quite a while ago. And then it was that I didn't automate it cause I was lazy.
But nowadays I'm just a consumer of these, rather than a writer.
Look up "Content Syndication Tools" though, that's what you'd be lookign for