Not exactly what you’re looking for, but most small blogs support rss. That’s enough if you just want a personal feed, and one could really easily build a bot to post articles onto Mastodon or Lemmy or similar. I’d be surprised if there isn’t already one.
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RiQuY@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I have been thinking if it is possible to integrate ActivityPub with static websites like personal blogs. Maybe that could replace social media for something more personal and curated.
bamboo@lemm.ee 4 days ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That’s in some sense getting back to the “open protocols” idea of ~2005, with federation and common identities. You’d still have 1) bothersome process of maintaining such a site, 2) problems how to find such, 3) an identity provider which can go down with your identity, like a Lemmy instance can.
It’s insufficient. Facebook and others have used an existing demand for a recommendation system and automatic moderation and search and all this junk.
I’m enthusiastic about Locutus.
0x815@feddit.org 4 days ago
I have been thinking the same. Maybe ghost.org’s federation over ActivityPub can solve the problem?
aniki@lemmings.world 4 days ago
WordPress supports activity pub
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes, I’m all in on that!
Ever since joining Lemmy I’ve noticed this awesome trend towards a modernized retro internet. Self/web hosted blogs, sites and apps. Not all that commercial giant bullshit but an oldschool mesh of servers. Activitypub and stuff will be awesome in creating a new subset that is more in line with the original designs for the internet.
ramble81@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Oh and then you could add these things called “rings” to the bottom of your website to jump to other websites with similar topics.
reddfugee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Phooey, I am old enough to get this reference!