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https://soapbox.pub https://soapbox.pub for the lazy. I was thinking of using a fediverse instance for my blog but I am unsure whether it's a good idea.
by hawkoy 6y ago
https://soapbox.pub https://soapbox.pub for the lazy.
I was thinking of using a fediverse instance for my blog but I am unsure whether it's a good idea.
- rglullis 6y agoWhat do you mean? To use a Mastodon/Pleroma instead of the blog, or a blog engine that can interoperate with ActivityPub? If the latter, I can only think of https://write.as https://write.as for the moment.
- riffic 6y agoYou can also install this plugin for WordPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ The ActivityPub ecosystem is pretty interesting. Look at it closely.
- rapnie 6y agoThere are a whole bunch of others. See https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps#blog-publishing-and-reading-apps https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
- LukeHoersten 6y agoI run my blog (https://wrt.nth.io/luke/ https://wrt.nth.io/luke/) as a fediverse instance of writefreely. Here’s my ansible role for it. You should just give it a try and see if it’s for you: https://src.nth.io/ansible-roles/file/tip/writefreely https://src.nth.io/ansible-roles/file/tip/writefreely I think federated blogs are the answer to google killing rss.
- juped 6y agoRSS is still not dead! You are on a website, RIGHT NOW, that publishes fully operational RSS feeds! So do all the popular blog CMSes! So do all the popular static blog generators! Even your own blog that you just linked publishes working RSS! https://wrt.nth.io/luke/feed/ https://wrt.nth.io/luke/feed/ The replacement for RSS is to stop inexplicably thinking RSS is somehow gone.
- LukeHoersten 6y agoI just mean rss is not nearly what it was at it’s peak. Sites are still publishing RSS feeds to be sure though.
- juped 6y agoI'm not sure that there's any "peak" to compare it to. I mean, my whole wishlist for the RSS ecosystem is basically: 1) people stop inexplicably calling it "dead" Being "dead" has its fringe benefits, at least, like no one proposing changes for the sake of change - it gets to be happily frozen and useful with no one trying to e.g. update it from the XML-everything mania of its time (embarassing in hindsight) to the JSON-everything mania of our time (I'm worried there won't even be a hindsight for it to be embarassing in). Well, except when people propose to replace it with something else because it's "dead" (sorry, I have no interest in following anyone on activitypub - if I want updates from your blog, I will poll the RSS feed you have kindly provided).
- site-packages1 6y agoI've never really used rss as a power user, but a long time ago subscribed to some feeds and tracked them in an rss app. I did that because it seemed like at one point I saw the rss logo everywhere and it seemed like everyone was promoting it. I didn't use the actual aggregator to look at the combined feeds, but I did have it all set up. Now I can't remember the last time I saw a site promoting or even clearly mentioning above the fold that they publish an rss feed. I didn't know HN published one until now. That's why I haven't argued with anyone claiming it's dead. It seems like it disappeared.
- Kye 6y agoI've seen more than a few sites use the RSS logo to point to a newsletter signup. I'm not sure whether it was deception or ignorance.
- looperhacks 6y agoJSON you say? https://jsonfeed.org/ https://jsonfeed.org/
- lainsoykaf 6y agoWe're also working on making it easier to install and switch between frontends.
- toastal 6y agoLooks like Soapbox’s built on React unlike the default front-end built on Vue