Comment on Fediverse alternative to fanfiction/writing platforms? (Wattpad, AO3, FFN, etc.)
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do have to say, the way www.royalroad.com/home does it is awesome.
- The only ads you get is from other authors. Whichnis sometimes hilarious.
- They work with authors with a lot of tools around editing, statistics, etc…
- Lots of authors will review your work for free.
- They have their own publishing platform. I heard it’s pretty good. But you have the option to go with whomever.
While it would be awesome if they supported fedi for comments, they do have RSS so it’s not like you can’t get updates that way.
DishonestBirb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Royal Road has its own issues such as author groups on Discord colluding to drive up member’s “Rising Star” rankings, and drive down the stories of authors they don’t like. Also, very inconsistent moderation policies that highly favour certain authors over others who just so happen to be friendly with mods, etc.
I also don’t believe it’s open source, so I’m not sure how it’s really any “more free” than any other fanfic platform out there in the fediverse sense.