WriteFreely

WriteFreely speaks ActivityPub, so any platform that implements the protocol works in both directions. Followers on Mastodon, Plume, Akkoma, Misskey, GoToSocial, and other ActivityPub servers can follow a WriteFreely account, like and boost posts, and reply through their own client. Replies come back to the WriteFreely blog as remote comments.

WriteFreely has its own local accounts (email plus password) and OAuth 2.0 support for federated login through Slack, GitHub, GitLab, and generic OpenID Connect providers. The OAuth options are configured per instance in the config, so a self-hosted admin can enable the providers that make sense for their community.

There is no built-in importer for Medium, WordPress.com, or Substack. WriteFreely exports and imports its own JSON format through the command-line tools, so the practical path is to convert the source blog export to that format. There are community scripts for common migrations, including a WordPress XML to WriteFreely JSON converter.

Yes. A single account can own multiple blogs, each on its own URL or sub-path, so a writer can keep a pen name, a technical blog, and a project blog on the same instance without them sharing an audience. Anonymous posting is also supported per post.

WriteFreely ships with translations in more than twenty languages and has first-class support for non-Latin and right-to-left scripts. Translating is open through Poeditor, so community contributions land in the next release.