Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not “cool” enough?
Literally just set one up yesterday on neocities, it was surprisingly easy. Of course then I managed to break it because I’m not as familiar with git as I’d like to be lol.