Though it's a ways off, a major milestone will be open-sourcing the Write.as platform. But beyond enabling people to self-host single blogs, we could really provide a unique platform by including federation out of the box -- basically a mini Write.as / Read Write.as combination for anyone to start their own small writing community. As I mentioned on writing.exchange:
What if Medium was federated and open source?
That's basically the idea.
We can probably support this in combination with the new custom favicon feature (T282), as suggested in this Remark.as discussion.
Fixed this on Write.as Web in the course of working on T546.
WriteFreely PR: #442
Improvements for the future:
We can potentially re-use some Read.as code for richer fediverse actor data. But this can move forward, now that T827 is complete.
This is live and working well for the Write.as forum, with Write.as as the OAuth provider. WriteFreely has support as an OAuth client.