As a Mastodon user who has been trying off an on to resurrect a blog and personal website, I'm starting to wonder whether the model of "personal blog with comme

As a Mastodon user who has been trying off an on to resurrect a blog and personal website, I'm starting to wonder whether the model of "personal blog with comments" really deserves to die given the nature of the modern web. If you're lucky, you just get ignored. Otherwise you just get consumed by AI and bots and psychopaths. I have tried to get my static site generator (Lektor) to work with Mastodon and generate my Mastodon posts as a blog. I haven't had success yet because Lektor is obsolete and kind of garbage, but Mastodon's API is great. I really like this solution, though. Just write a blog post and link to it from Mastodon. That solves the problem of Mastodon's text limit and of small hosted instances needing to regularly delete content to stay under their account limit. As a technical feat and expression of FOSS integration this is cool but I don't know about the utility of it since any actual human being reading these comments will already be reading them on Mastodon. It is definitely better than the cancer that is Disqus though.