I have a static blog. Think something like a site generated with a static site generator (like Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, etc)
I’ve been thinking about making a separate backend for the blog with ActivityPub functionality to boost its discoverability.
Is there any tool that can assist me with this? I wanted to make sure before I embark on building something from scratch.
P. S. I am aware of WriteFreely, but I would prefer if the blog site remains a static site and decoupled from the ActivityPub stuff.
IMHO the best and most supported way is just to post a message whenever you make a post. For example I toot on my mastodon whenever I release a new post. People then that share and reply to that toot.
This is done via simple automation that watches my feed and hits the mastodon API.
For actual blog subscribers I like to stick with regular RSS + WebSub, I don’t see much advantage to ActivityPub integration here.
@kevincox @cyclohexane
Yeah, this is the way, at least for now.