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a thought that just resurfaced: it'd be cool if mastodon / the fediverse at large had some kind of standard way to surface people's blog rss feeds and the like.

like remember how facebook used to let you publish a feed? that was of course a stepping stone to their enclosure of the web - but what's, like, the conceptual inverse of that? a thing that uses the energy here to build the whole open-web-glued-together-by-some-protocols side of things instead of trying to eat it?

Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker

@brennen Since I use a static site generator, I was able to put together a template that makes my blog emit ActivityPub data.

It took me about an hour. If I can do it with Pelican, it shouldn't be much harder to do with Jekyll or WordPress.

matthewgraybosch.com/feeds/ap/

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@starbreaker i've kinda played with that idea. it looks reasonably manageable.

is your template source public somewhere? i might take a run at doing that with github.com/brennen/wrt one of these days.

@starbreaker @brennen That's pretty darn neat. I should do that for my hugo site (sadly neglected).

I guess the 'following' collection is basically a blogroll?

Is there any way to actually follow your feed from Mastodon? With remote subscribe somehow?

@gcupc @brennen I don't know if remote follow for activitypub blog feeds is implemented yet.

I should make a plug-in for my favorite blog thingie to publish posts as Activity Pub thingies :thinkhappy: As you can see I am very :crt_w_prompt:

@alice How do you build your blog? WordPress?

@alice PicoCMS uses Twig for templates, right? You could probably just take my templates and modify them to use variables emitted by PicoCMS. They're available from my GitHub repository.

github.com/matthewgraybosch/oe

@alice If you get around to it, please let me know how it turns out. :)

@starbreaker @brennen How would one go about using that from something like Mastodon? AIUI you need to be able to POST to followers' inboxes for them to see the content you post under normal circumstances. I'm note even sure what if anything Mastodon uses the outbox for since I often can't see any toots on people's profile pages from within Mastodon itself.

@seanl @brennen I don't think Mastodon has the capability to read ActivityStreams feeds generated by static site generators yet, and I doubt it's on the radar for either Mastodon or Pleroma.

@starbreaker @brennen you mean ActivityStreams data. if it can't accept or transmit POST requests then it's not doing ActivityPub