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

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@cwebber
As for that optional suggestion, there's this:

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/

I use it for my own blog (but I'm not popular enough to know what the moderation story looks like, fortunately or unfortunately).

Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon

Update 29.01.2023: Adapted the code to work with Mastodon 4.0 and replaced linuxrocks.online by floss.social Update 15.03.2023: Thanks to @[email protected], this code now handles replies in a lot nicer way. You might want check out her solution too. Update 07.07.2023: Thanks to @[email protected], the layout was improved and this now handle emojis One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments.

Carl Schwan
Apr 12 at 1:27amFedilab