Created More content types (markdown)

More-content-types.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+On Hometown, if you subscribe to a service that sends out `Article` objects over ActivityPub (such as a blog on [Write As](https://write.as)), then those full articles render in your home timeline, behind a cut for length. Also, Hometown will render a variety of rich text like _italic_ and **bold**.
+
+## Why
+
+Mastodon is microblogging software, meant for Twitter-style shortform posting.
+
+Hometown is microblogging for _writing_, but its goal is to accept many content types for _reading_. So while I don't plan to let Hometown users publish massive blog posts, I would like your Hometown instance to be your one-stop shop for viewing all sorts of things on the Fediverse.
+
+Reading more content types also helps make the fediverse better. ActivityPub supports all kinds of content, but most ActivityPub servers shoehorn all their content into `Note` because that's the type that Mastodon treats as first-class. This has important implications for the fediverse and also on your day to day user experience. If you've dreamed of a fediverse where you can send out calendar events and RSVP to things, well, this doesn't do that but it's a step in the right direction because it encourages rich content types.
+
+## How
+
+Click on this GIF for a brief video demo:
+
+<img src="https://tinysubversions.com/pics/hometown-article.gif" alt="Video demo of someone clicking 'read article' on an incoming article post, which then renders a full article.">
+
+## Who
+
+This is based on rich text work by [Thibaut Girka](https://sitedethib.com), and my own work on `Article` support.