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Hey, #fediverse experts: I have a question. On my blog, I embed comments from the #fediverse. I also link to the comment thread on my instance. However, nobody else is using my instance. Is there a service where I can pass it a URL to a note, and it will ask the user what instance they use, then direct there instance to go get that note so they can respond? It currently looks like this, comments at the bottom; I'd like to replace the "this post on the fediverse" link with some way for users to pick their instance: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@thenexusofprivacy Yup. Right now someone who stumbled on one of my posts later would have a hard time commenting. They'd have to have a fediverse account, and know how to search for a post by URL on that service. I really really don't want to run and moderate my own comment system, though. I'm thinking maybe the solution would be to create some kind of account on my instance (webanon@fed.interfree.ca or something) and then build a form that uses that account to submit replies to the thread from web commenters. But I'd have to figure out how to keep the spammers from filling out the form, and now I'm back into captchas and everything else that makes me not want to run my own comments system.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@FediTips If other blind folks approach you to ask about accessible blogging, micro.blog is the best generic solution I've found that doesn't require technical expertise. Unfortunately it's paid. I think @WeirdWriter is using Hugo or Eleventy or something.
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Robert Kingett

Correct. I’m using Eleventy without any ActivityPub integration at the moment, but even though these aren’t direct ties to the Fediverse, TeaHouse aims to make static sites easy to use for non-technical people. I linked it at the end but BearBlog, fully managed and 95% accessible, could be adapted to work with the Fediverse, including allowing for Fediverse comments. I thought MicroBlog is very integrated with the Fedi though, even allowing comments from BlueSky and Mastodon natively? You can check out Teahouse at teahouse.cafe/product.html

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@WeirdWriter@FediTips Also, feel free to grab the JavaScript I use to pull in Fediverse comments if you want. The source isn't obfuscated, so looking at the HTML of an article page on stuff.interfree.ca should show you what to do. In short, include some JavaScript in the header and a div in the body.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@WeirdWriter@FediTips Correct. No custom themes, no activity pub, and no use of mobile apps. To add in the activity pub stuff you have to go to the five bucks a month plan. If you also want to use the mobile apps and have email newsletters, now it's ten bucks a month. Considering you can get a VPS that can host a static blog for eight bucks a month, or do it free on places like freeshell or github pages, that seems a bit much.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@FediTips@homegrown If it helps, I'm using a modified version of this library to pull the comments, with enhancements for screen reader accessibility, and changes to work with IceShrimp.NET instead of Mastodon: github.com/UppaJung/fediverse-comments

GitHub - UppaJung/fediverse-comments: script to load mastodon posts into an otherwise-static webpage.

script to load mastodon posts into an otherwise-static webpage. - UppaJung/fediverse-comments
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@FediTips Whenever I make a blog post, I post a link to it on the fediverse from this account. Then I pull any replies to the fediverse post I made as comments on my blog. So to make a comment, people need to make a reply to my fediverse post about it. Then it will show up in the fediverse thread and as a comment under the blog article. For example: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html is pulling comments from: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a77rsl3x59d4y00j

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2025-04-30 17:24:23

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Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.
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