Using #Madblog as the easiest way to spin up an Indieweb/ActivityPub-compatible blog.
Zero db, zero JS, entirely hosted on text files.
Does it work only for a single user? Is there a free instance I could create blog on?
Madblog: A Markdown Folder That Federates Everywhere
Submitted 3 days ago by fabio@lemmy.manganiello.tech to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown
Comments
claim_arguably@lemdro.id 1 day ago
fabio@lemmy.manganiello.tech 1 day ago
At the current state it’s only single-user, but I’m working on a multi-user implementation. It should be available as soon as I have a proper implementation for the ActivityPub Group actor (similar to what WriteFreely already does, where you have a Group
@blogactor that aggregates post from multiple Person actors). That would also unlock full compatibility with Lemmy/NodeBB and other threadiverse implementations. But it takes a while to get done right - and a multi-user set up is also a design challenge when your selling point is to have a blog running on a single folder with Markdown files.About a free instance, it’s not currently available (you’ll need your own domain and host and then you can just spin up a Docker container), but AFAIK YunoHost is considering adding it to their offering.
Dust0741@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ww this fills a niche that I had but hadn’t been able to think through yet. Amazing!
ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Neat, this looks really great! I am already enjoying a similar function for my blog via the Digital Gardens plugin in Obsidian the markdown note taking app. Makes it super easy to make a blog out of your preexisting notes, but even with that I still have a hard time blogging often.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
it works so well that it federated into this community twice! /s
pedroapero@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu 3 days ago
👑 looks great ! Do you have any example blogposts showing the diagram and latex equation feature? I haven’t seen anywhere else in the fediverse do this
fabio@lemmy.manganiello.tech 2 days ago
There’s an example with LaTeX here blog.platypush.tech/…/Build-an-open-source-drone-…
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 days ago
Looks pretty cool!
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 days ago
So, mentioning you like this shows up in the guestbook? @fabio@manganiello.blog
fabio@lemmy.manganiello.tech 2 days ago
Not yet but you can try again 🙂 There was a bug where mentions without direct URLs were discarded but it should be fixed now. Full federation with Lemmy however is still an open point because it requires me to properly implement a Group actor for full threadiverse compatibility.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nice project. Your blog looks good as well. I’m impressed by how simple it all is to set up.