[$] Federated blogging with WriteFreely

Your editor has never been a prolific blogger; a hard day in the LWN salt
mines tends to reduce the desire to write more material for the net in the
scarce free time that remains. But, still, sometimes the desire to post
something that is not on-topic for LWN arises. Google+ has served as the
outlet for such impulses in recent years, but Google has, in its wisdom,
decided to
discontinue that service. That leaves a bereft editor searching for
alternatives for those times when the world simply has to hear his
political opinions or yet another air-travel complaint, preferably one that
won't vanish at the whim of some corporation. Recently, a simple
blog-hosting system called WriteFreely
came to light; it offers a platform that just might serve as a substitute
for centralized offerings.