I have a static blog. Think something like a site generated with a static site generator (like Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, etc)

I’ve been thinking about making a separate backend for the blog with ActivityPub functionality to boost its discoverability.

Is there any tool that can assist me with this? I wanted to make sure before I embark on building something from scratch.

P. S. I am aware of WriteFreely, but I would prefer if the blog site remains a static site and decoupled from the ActivityPub stuff.

  • @southerntofu
    5•2 years ago

    I think what you’re looking for is brid.gy, it’s an indieweb<->whatever gateway, where whatever includes ActivityPub. https://brid.gy/

    So if you support webmentions on your static site (by using an endpoint outside of your static site which you query to update comments before building the site) you can interface with ActivityPub.

    And supporting webmention is definitely two orders of magnitude less complex than supporting ActivityPub.

    • bruhbeans
      1•2 years ago

      This would be a very helpful blog post.

      • @southerntofu
        1•2 years ago

        I don’t think i have energy to do this right now, but i’d be happy to take some time to answer your question if you reach me on IRC/XMPP. Maybe even this motivates me to find time to work on a solution together with you ;-)