Aaron Parecki

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

Maybe I'm missing something about forwarding my replies to other servers. Right now I only send replies directly to the server I'm replying to, so that's probably why you aren't seeing my replies to other servers. You should have been seeing my normal public posts tho.

It's showing up like my normal webmention notifications and I can read and reply to them in my reader apps, different apps on my computer and my phone. https://media.aaronpk.com/Screen-Shot-2018-07-13-08-15-05-EFGkWHrJg2.jpg

It already has Microformats, so you can follow it from a reader that supports that, like any of the indieweb readers! https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet