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·
    3 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.

      • southerntofu
        1·
        3 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 ;-)

  • kevincox
    51·
    3 years ago

    IMHO the best and most supported way is just to post a message whenever you make a post. For example I toot on my mastodon whenever I release a new post. People then that share and reply to that toot.

    This is done via simple automation that watches my feed and hits the mastodon API.

    For actual blog subscribers I like to stick with regular RSS + WebSub, I don’t see much advantage to ActivityPub integration here.

      • hellojack
        3·
        3 years ago

        I also cant follow @something@lemmy.ml from mastodon, it only says follow pending. stuck there for few months

        • Thann
          2·
          3 years ago

          you can’t follow people, only communities.

            • Thann
              1·
              3 years ago

              c/privacy should work, but there is a user named linux that confuses mastodon search, so you can’t sub to the community of the same name. presumably this will get fixed in the future.

              It’s also worth noting that communities “boost” all of the comments in a sub, so its very “noisy” to sub to a community. that will also presumably get fixed eventually.

  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.org
    1·
    3 years ago

    @cyclohexane

    Not to take away from brid.gy and other more high tech solutions, which I should look into and maybe switch to, but I have a Jekyll site (kind of a mix between a one-person wiki and a blog), and what I do is that I just post excerpts from my posts and add a link to the post. I think this is great because Fedi posts aren’t editable but Jekyll posts are, and my writing is typo-ridden and sloppy so I really appreciate being able to fix things.

    It still sucks when I make a typo in the excerpt.