a thought that just resurfaced: it'd be cool if mastodon / the fediverse at large had some kind of standard way to surface people's blog rss feeds and the like.
like remember how facebook used to let you publish a feed? that was of course a stepping stone to their enclosure of the web - but what's, like, the conceptual inverse of that? a thing that uses the energy here to build the whole open-web-glued-together-by-some-protocols side of things instead of trying to eat it?
@brennen Since I use a static site generator, I was able to put together a template that makes my blog emit ActivityPub data.
It took me about an hour. If I can do it with Pelican, it shouldn't be much harder to do with Jekyll or WordPress.
@starbreaker @brennen How would one go about using that from something like Mastodon? AIUI you need to be able to POST to followers' inboxes for them to see the content you post under normal circumstances. I'm note even sure what if anything Mastodon uses the outbox for since I often can't see any toots on people's profile pages from within Mastodon itself.
@seanl @brennen I don't think Mastodon has the capability to read ActivityStreams feeds generated by static site generators yet, and I doubt it's on the radar for either Mastodon or Pleroma.