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.
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Not to take away from brid.gy and other more high tech solutions, which I should look into and maybe switch to, but I have a Jekyll site (kind of a mix between a one-person wiki and a blog), and what I do is that I just post excerpts from my posts and add a link to the post. I think this is great because Fedi posts aren’t editable but Jekyll posts are, and my writing is typo-ridden and sloppy so I really appreciate being able to fix things.
It still sucks when I make a typo in the excerpt.
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.
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Yeah, this is the way, at least for now.