Christine Lemmer-Webber3d ago

If you wanted to make high-impact fediverse software, I would recommend making a simple daemon that does the following:

- Consumes RSS/Atom feeds
- Posts them as subscribable feeds over activitypub
- So dead easy you can host it yourself as a simple daemon on your server
- Optionally: collects replies as a comment section with a way to render them inline, a-la disqus, with some simple moderation tools. Simplest way to reduce spam would be to make it approve-only to show up on the feed.

You could extend this to allow posting on other servers etc. But, in other words, let more people use the static site generator they already have

Show threadSebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
@cwebber So the purpose of this would be to allow people with static websites to easily embed an ActivityPub-compatible comment section into their posts; is that right?
Show threadChristine Lemmer-Webber
@seabass And also allow others to subscribe to them and view their content on their fedi instance
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Show threadSebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
@cwebber It's a very neat idea. You are, however, very like to have nerd-sniped enough of the programming corners of the Fediverse that there will very soon be ten competing daemons, though ;)
Show threaddas-g2d ago

@cwebber So kinda like https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/110781413323024163, but less manual? (If I understand correctly, to use @davidrevoy's system, one has to manually create a mastodon post for each blog post.)

@seabass

David Revoy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I may have found an alternative solution to my blog's commenting system! 😺 The synchronization of comments from my Mastodon account. It's something I tried and abandoned, but I'm giving it another try after reading your comments. Well, I explain more on the blog and also share the source code: Blog post, source code, and demo: → https://www.davidrevoy.com/article981/i-may-have-found-an-alternative-solution-to-my-blogs-comment-system Bonus: Because I'm happy, here's a happy Mastodon mascot as a postman that I painted this morning. #blog #selfhosting #php

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