Is there a Fediverse option for hosting fanfiction, or maybe web novels/serials/etc? Like an AO3 alternative, basically. I looked around but couldn’t find one, the closest thing that kinda works are the blogging platforms like writefreely. If there isn’t, do you think fanfiction would be a good candidate for federation?
WriteFreely would be your best bet of what exists. However, the communities are small between instances, and there’s not any search algorithm or anything to my knowledge.
With what currently exists on the Fediverse, I think that having a WriteFreely and posting what you write to: your own Lemmy community; a Mastodon account; a Pixelfed account; depending on your needs and use, would be the best way of going about it within the current ecosystem as it exists.
I can see the opportunity here, but I don’t think there’s any platform right for it right now.
Using a federated platform to post ratings/stories/updates and comments might work quite well. I don’t even think it should be too hard to map the underlying concepts to existing ActivityPub implementations as long as you provide standards like Markdown.
No federated alternative as of yet. It’s one of the platform types that the fediverse is lacking.
Dreamwidth (which is not a platform to host fanfiction, but rather to discuss it, share recs, etc) has had federation proposals, but nothing has come out of them.
WriteFreely is in the fediverse, but it’s more of a blog platform the style of blogger, wordpress, or medium.
