Beej š¾I wrote a new blog entry on adding Mastodon comments to my blog. And, if all goes well, you'll be able to comment on it here, and have those comments appear there. š¤
Chris "$8 peasant" Jones@beejjorgensen Very cool!
Am I replying mostly so I can see my comment on the blogpost? Maybe!
Am I replying mostly so I can see my comment on the blogpost? Maybe!
Ryan@beejjorgensen excited to read through this and see my comment!
Smokin' Joe Frazier
Paul Hege@beejjorgensen What a great creative use of mastodon!
Shenaneggans@beejjorgensen cool idea and also I want to see my comment lol!
ikesau@beejjorgensen ah, amazing - i was just thinking of implementing something similar on my site. thanks for the proof of concept!
MrCopilot@beejjorgensen great writeup.
Conrad "MungoDude" Rivers@beejjorgensen This is an amazing idea, I would love to see more blogs/news sites/anything use mastodon for comments like this
Ayid Sudirman@beejjorgensen this is awesome
Alex@beejjorgensen Very cool! Some JavaScript calling Mastodon's API is a nice clean way of doing it.
Dan@beejjorgensen This is such a great idea. Love it.
spartanatreyuLet's see how it works with markdown style code comments and a little ascii art:
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@spartanatreyu that rendered as markdown, but it also rendered as markdown here in Mastodon.
David@beejjorgensen This is super cool. Perhaps @write_as would be interested.
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ag@beejjorgensen Very cool! Some years back I set up GitHub-hosted comments using utterances (https://github.com/utterance/utterances) for my blog. It works well enough (free, ad-free), but Fediverse integration is clearly truer to the spirit of Indieweb.
Mahesh Rijal@beejjorgensen This is Cool!
Geniusak@beejjorgensen Huh, I did the exact same setup and everything, but with lemmy instead of mastodon. Funny how that works out. You can see mine here https://blog.coship.fyi/blog/lemmy-comments/
jose@beejjorgensen you convinced me on both the static generator and mastodon comments. I'm already doing something with markdown, and the last bit about automating the post creation totally felt like a challenge (and I don't even have any traffic lol). Good post
beetle_bNice job! I did something similar very recently:
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Jan/adding-fediverse-comments-to-my-static-site/
I suggest one not have to hit "View Comments" to see them. I, and perhaps most people, have been programmed to ignore things like that. In fact, I was about to reply to you saying that it wasn't working because I couldn't see the comments!
David@beetle_b @beejjorgensen I also thought there were no comments. I was going to reply and *that's when* I actually read the View Comments button. Amazing what our brains can filter out.
Maybe it could load the comments when the Reply button becomes visible?
Oh, and BTW, for whatever reason mastodon.sdf.org's link to your toot doesn't show up in the search on my instance, although searching for your profile does work.
I don't know if it's a problem with your instance or mine. But it may be a barrier for people to leave comments (having to first find your Mastodon profile, then find the relevant toot, and then reply).
Never mind - the search works now. Probably a temporary glitch.
Chris is.@beejjorgensen I've done this on my site for a couple of years, but your write-up is a very polished walk-through of how to do it in detail. Kudos!
groxx@beejjorgensen I'm quite fond of mastodon replies - it lets me use my account rather than making one on every site / with some system that's going to spam me next year / etc :)
sorta like Gravatar, but with much better commenter-recognition.
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š³š±šŖšŗ@beejjorgensen This is really cool! Thanks for sharing.
sport of sacred spherical cowsHonestly, had been expecting to see something like this rolled out as a sort of inline fedi client, for blogs and blog-likes, years ago.
Glad to finally start seeing some proof-of-concept implementations showing up in recent days. (There's someone else who for a few weeks now has been posting toots that include a disclaimer "replies to this will appear on my blog".)
tinspin@beejjorgensen For science. Edit: It works!
Jacob HallIt works!
David Marzal@beejjorgensen Great project. I took the easy way and used
https://github.com/dpecos/mastodon-comments
on
https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/posts/kdeexpress/41-kde-express/
And I'm waiting to more Podcast Apps to use the Social Interact tag from Podcasting 2.0 to use Mastodon as comment system.
atomi@beejjorgensen This is very cool.
I've got to do this too.
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Sixty4Bit@beejjorgensen it would be very cool if the web linked to the Mastodon post, probably with via DateTime of the post or something.
@sixty4bit yeah, I need to add that functionality.
blowfist@beejjorgensen Testing to see if this works with the tusky android client as well.
@beejjorgensen Very nice. I guess we could do the exact same thing with matrix as well. By having a unique room per blog post. I wonder which of mastodon or matrix would be easier to moderate against spam.
brendan@beejjorgensen This a comment, specifically left as a comment to comment on commenting on a blog post using Mastodon reply's as comments. How amazingly cool!
Andrej Shadura@beejjorgensen, thanks, I think Iām going to implements something like this myself.
Yu-Fu Wu@beejjorgensen It's really cool to use my own Fediverse account to leave a comment š®
utensil@beejjorgensen It's cool to be able to comment from my account on https://mathstodon.xyz . I also like the idea that the comments are not loaded by default.
Mark@beejjorgensen Thanks for sharing. š
It just made lobsters front page.
domm@beejjorgensen Nice! I recently also linked my blog (created via a self-written static site generator) to mastodon (and faced the same Chicken & Egg Problem), but also loading mastodon replies into the blog sounds like an interesting next step.
Maor@beejjorgensen This is unbelievably cool
manes@beejjorgensen
Web 5.0! Noice!
Web 5.0! Noice!
Fundor333@beejjorgensen Love the article and I made a Github Action for reading mastodon link
https://fundor333.com/post/2025/github-action-for-syndication-links/
