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?
@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.
I should make a plug-in for my favorite blog thingie to publish posts as Activity Pub thingies 
As you can see I am very 
@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.
@starbreaker _nod_ bookmarked
@alice If you get around to it, please let me know how it turns out. :)
@starbreaker I haven't done anything yet... just set up the repo https://github.com/acarback/picocms-activitypub/tree/master
@alice That's fine. Take your time.
