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.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    2·
    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.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    There are bots that take an RSS feed and post that to a Mastodon instance automatically.

    I guess an standalone AP server that reads an RSS feed and exposes that as AP might be cool.

    Otherwise WordPress has a pretty well working activity pub plugin as well.

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
    1·
    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.

      • hellojack@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

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

            • Thann@lemmy.ml
              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.