I wonder if there's an rss to activitypub adapter. Unless you want comments on your entries.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Good point! I just checked and apparently there's several. Yet another rabbit hole to look into.
EDIT: Yeah, I looked into it, there's actually only a few. rss2ap doesn't support mastodon, which is kind of a deal breaker. Mastofeeder wants its own DNS to run locally, I can't see their proxied feeds from my instance, and some sites just straight up don't work. rss-to-activitypub seems fairly robust, but really wants its own mastodon instance and hasn't been touched in four years.
Good suggestion but all of that seems like more hassle than I'm prepared to deal with.
You can always hook it up to a fediverse account that you can use with more complicated software. It can post it like a link and people can comment in the fediverse, but your page would be simpler because it doesn't need to support all those fancy features.
TBF, there is theme support in writefreely, though mostly limited to some colour changes within the very text based aesthetic.
Ideally IMHO, somebody would take the consequence of recent Wordpress drama and just use the code base for a very light install — perhaps with the activitypub plugin baked in, to make it fediverse native.
Huh. How did I miss that? Some of those actually look alright. Thanks!
I did look at ClassicPress too. But apparently despite broad compatibility with WordPress plugins, activitypub specifically breaks it.
ClassicPress is a start, I guess. My thought is more of slashing off all the extraneous bloat that has been added to WP over the last 15 years (but keeping the security updates) and make it a lean little blogging software again. But if course I don't have the skills to do that myself.