WriteFreely

WriteFreely is stubbornly focused on being a truly simple blogging platform. It removes distractions like news feeds, notifications, and engagement metrics to help you focus on writing. Unlike platforms that try to keep you scrolling and checking for likes, WriteFreely gives you space to think freely from alerts and social media distractions.

You need basic command-line experience and access to a server where you can run an executable. There are no dependencies to install—only the WriteFreely application itself, which runs anywhere.

WriteFreely is a Go (golang) application built with LESS and plain Javascript on the frontend. It can be backed by MySQL or SQLite databases and can be deployed on cloud servers with as little as 256 MB RAM or even on a Raspberry Pi.

WriteFreely is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

WriteFreely has spent the past decade reliably powering more than 550,000 blogs on Write.as. The platform originated as Write.as in late 2014, and WriteFreely was released under a free license in late 2018 after adding ActivityPub support.