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Add the redacted source file for demo purposes Reviewed-on: https://source.michaeldileo.org/michael_dileo/Keybard-Vagabond-Demo/pulls/1 Co-authored-by: Michael DiLeo <michael_dileo@proton.me> Co-committed-by: Michael DiLeo <michael_dileo@proton.me>
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# Welcome! Start here 😁
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Write Freely is a minimalist blog space that connects to the fediverse, so others can follow your account, *@someAwesomePerson@blog.keyboardvagabond.com,* on sites like [Mastodon](https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com), where they (or you) can boost, share, and comment, or subscribe with RSS.
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To get started, check out the [Writer's Guide](https://writefreely.org/guide/v0.15.1), but to give you the gist, Write Freely uses [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/), though it also works with HTML.
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## Signing Up
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Signup uses the SSO system since blogs are a common source of spam and bad actors.
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To gain access you can contact the admin at [sysadmin@mail.keyboardvagabond.com](mailto:sysadmin@mail.keyboardvagabond.com) or message [@sysadmin@blog.keyboardvagabond.com](https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/@sysadmin@blog.keyboardvagabond.com) for the invite link.
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## Get Writing
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**Drafts** - Your posts start out as Draft and you Publish them to go live. </br>
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**Tags** - Use hashtags anywhere, or at the bottom or top of your blog to help your content be found. Use tags like [#blog](https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/tags/blog), [#writing](https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/tags/writing), [#travelblog](https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/tags/travelblog), etc to help your content be found. **Sometimes changes to hashtags don't federate properly after a post has been published**, so be careful. Consider writing your blog in another application copy-pasting the final version so you don't get prematurely submit-happy. </br>
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**Pinning Posts** - You can pin a post so that it appears at the top of your blog. You can use it to make a directory of posts. See an example at [blog.michaeldileo.org](https://blog.michaeldileo.org). </br>
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**Images** - You can use Pixelfed or Picsur to host images and link them in the blog using markdown. </br>
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## Using images in your blog
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### Picsur
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*A self-hosted alternative for Imgur*</br>
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Upload your photo to picsur and you can copy the link in markdown directly OR you hover over the icon in the bottom right to add edits to your query, such as resizing (you don't always want the largest image) or rotations. You can also choose the format dynamically by changing the filetype at the end. **Picsur does compress your images**, so if you want full quality, another source.
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<blockquote></blockquote>
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### Pixelfed
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*The fediverse alternative to Instagram*</br>
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Upload to Pixelfed, either with Keyboard Vagabond or with an instance that doesn't compress images. From there you add the URL, but there aren't transformations that you can apply like with Picsur, so if you want styling use the HTML syntax.
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<img src="url to image" style="width:400px" />
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```
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<img src="https://pm.keyboardvagabond.com/public/m/_v2/853322186423017473/33cc9b949-339791/cLiHE5KU1dpM/2Sc7Kf0yWRJ9DCJ7QUH28AsmEMMKHUrEVZ82jTqe.jpg" style="width: 400px" />
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## Federation
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You can enable or disable federation for your blog. If you want to guarantee privacy you can leave your blogs in Draft.
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You follow blogs, not accounts. If you go to the settings page on your blog, you'll see the handle for it, which you can use to find your blog on the fediverse. Go to your Mastodon account and follow your blog before you publish a post to have them show up on that server.
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## Monetization
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Monetization is enabled with [Web Monetization](https://webmonetization.org/), but if you're looking to start a business or earn income writing, [Ghost](https://ghost.org) is fantastic and also federates while taking less than other sites.
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#keyboardvagabond #blog #intro #writefreely #guide #writefreelyguide
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terms-of-service/write-freely/WhyKeyboardVagabond.md
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# Why Keyboard Vagabond?
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The reason Keyboard Vagabond exists follows a trend online that is more and more common: people trying to escape the grasp and enshittification of big tech. It started with me leaving Reddit during the API debacle for the fediverse. Soon after I saw that many services became much more blatant about wanting to make me the product of their products. It was something that we always knew, but at least I felt like I was getting more out of it.
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In 2023 I decided after living in Austin, TX for four years that it was time to do that thing that had been in the back of my mind for a long time - to sell everything and become a digital nomad. I'm a software developer and a traveler. I already had experience traveling and living out of hostels and I even spent two months in the Netherlands working abroad to see if I'd like to move there one day. It's still on the table. 😉
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While I was traveling and navigating the new world of the fediverse, I saw multiple comments about how there isn't a dedicated space for nomads. There are a few communities on Lemmy, but not a real dedicated space. So I thought I'd make one and do it in a way that is related to my job and can put on a resume. So it's kinda over-built for the target audience (I hope) and overcomplicated.
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That's why Keyboard Vagabond started existing, to create a space for nomads, but why one should use this instance instead of the bigger ones is a different question.
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The answer is that you can use **both**! Federation can be tricky to get the content coming in, because someone has to follow the source. But one nice thing is that different "instances" have different vibes since they have their own communities. So, if you want to see what's going on in the nomad world, you could look at only things created on these individual servers, or "Local" vs all.
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I'm hoping to create a place that is refreshing from big tech and full of good resources. It's not like one has to abandon Instagram, but hopefully this space can be an oasis from all of the advertising and attention economy, as that doesn't exist here.
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To see everything that is on offer, check out the home page at [www.keyboardvagabond.com](https://www.keyboardvagabond.com). Join us and help to create a better web, one that's built for people and not for profit!
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#keyboardvagabond #fediverse #blog #writefreely #mastodon #pixelfed #piefed #lemmy #travel #nomad #digitalnomad
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