🔗 Scripting News: What is a writing portal?

  • So far we've only created reading portals. What I want for myself and for you, is a writing portal. #
    • A reading portal brings a lot of writers together so you can read them all in one place.#
    • A writing portal is the same idea but in reverse. I write in my portal, and it flows where ever I want it to.#
  • The problem is the reading portals aren't open to allow this to work.#
  • They all want you to write in their tiny little text boxes.#

Micro.blog is my writing portal. I write in my blog hosted in Micro.blog and its timeline shows me a stream of my posts and those of the bloggers/writers I follow. I can even follow other Fediverse accounts.

It does have a (not so) little text box, but I can also write in and publish from Mars Edit, Ulysses, Drafts and many other places. Even this quote and commentary is being written in an iOS shortcut.

And then it also gets cross-posted everywhere.

This is as close to a writing portal as I can imagine.

Thank the author and go visit the site.