I tried doing something similar, but at least Mastodon expects ... • Aaron Parecki

Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jul 13

activitypub for static site generators Show more @craigmaloney Aha, so this is an interesting topic! In fact we did plan for this possibility in ActivityPub! Here's how to do it: - Add an actor like: {"@id": "https://foo.example/blog/actor.jsonld", "inbox": "https://statichelper.example/foo-example/inbox", "outbox": "https://foo.example/blog/feed.jsonld"} - comments and favorite counts can be "loaded" dynamically onto blog pages with javascript, kind of like Disqus.

I tried doing something similar, but at least Mastodon expects to be able to do content negotiation on both author profile URLs as well as post permalinks, so that kind of prevents it from being able to effectively work with static sites.

I got to the point of being able to deliver posts to my followers without actually writing any JSON files at all, but then things kind of looked half broken to people in Mastodon.

There's an open issue on GitHub about a potential solution that would make this work better for static sites, feel free to chime in! https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/310

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Fri, Jul 13, 2018 8:44am -07:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Eugen mastodon.social/@Gargron
  
  @aaronpk In so far as putting the post's link into the Mastodon search bar to get it loaded, I know it definitely works with HTML links. I also think it does that when resolving inReplyTo threads.
  
  Fri, Jul 13, 2018 5:12pm +00:00
- Eugen mastodon.social/@Gargron
  
  @aaronpk id property has to be either content-negotiable or always json. url property can be html. you may use <link> tags in html to point to json resources, also.
  
  Fri, Jul 13, 2018 5:01pm +00:00
- Eugen mastodon.social/@Gargron
  
  @aaronpk id property has to be either content-negotiable or always json. url property can be html. you may use <link> tags in html to point to json resources, also.
  
  Fri, Jul 13, 2018 5:01pm +00:00

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