Christine Lemmer-Webber2d 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 threadPuercoPop

@cwebber I built something similar, scrapping YouTube channels and posting them to mastodon (sorry #Fediverse I prioritized building something that worked over implementing a server+actor). My goal was to generate more #Peru-specific content to make the fediverse more appealing to people from my country.

https://git.sr.ht/~puercopop/yt2m

Apr 11 at 10:00pmWeb
Show threadPuercoPop2d ago
@cwebber In practice I haven't found it to generate much engagement. There are some improvements I could make, like scraping hashtags from the title to include them and determine an posting frequency using Little's law. But upon reflection I enjoy the fediverse because of organic content, not bots. Now I think that local servers hosted in Spanish by default + IRL awareness campaigns might be a better way to drive adopting
Show threadMartin Schlegel2d ago
@PuercoPop @cwebber te lo agradezco, necesitamos mas esfuerzo para hacer al fediverso conocido y útil en #Peru