Write on, all ye fountain pen lubbers!

Welcome to the You Have Writes! web site. This is intended as a place for fountain pen geeks to gather. This is not intended to replace long-standing communities like The Fountain Pen Network or FPGeeks (hence the lack of a traditional forum -- though I am willing to entertain the idea of setting one up!); rather , this is intended as more of a social network that is specific to the fountain pen community. You can think along the lines of Facebook (general social network) and Instagram (photo-sharing social network), except running entirely on open source software and ran by a guy who loves fountain pens and cares about privacy. There is also an instant messaging service and a wiki (though the wiki needs to be filled in - like, a LOT).

Currently, this site plays host to the following services:

• Friendica: Open source alternative to Facebook/MySpace
• Pixelfed: Open source alternative to Instagram/Flickr (photo sharing only -- no videos)
• Jabber/XMPP: Instant messaging service with support for chat rooms (will eventually be integrated to Friendica once I've finished troubleshooting a few things)
• MediaWiki: Wiki to document fountain pen-related topics

I would consider hosting the following if there is significant interest:

• Twitter alternative (mastodon, libertree, diaspora, pleroma, misskey, minds)
• Traditional forum (but really, do we need another?)
• Mailing list
• Mumble (open source alternative to Discord)
• Blogs (wordpress, hexo, etc.) -- Technically, you can use my Friendica service as a blog, however I don't consider this an ideal way to blog; Friendica is more for general social interaction in a manner similar to Facebook.
• PeerTube (open source YouTube alternatives) (far future -- will need more funds than I can currently dedicate)
• Audio netcast (far future -- will need more funds than I can currently dedicat)