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Any blogging software not implementing activitypub should be considered abandonware

#ActivityPub

in reply to django

Huh? Not everybody wants their blog to be social media, let alone part of this particular social network. Blogs are older than social networks.

Hell, not everyone wants comments.

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in reply to Seirdy

Static sites as blogs are very much a thing too. Not everybody wants their blogs to be more than rich documents.
in reply to Seirdy

I personally consider my site a bit of a retreat from Fedi. I selectively bridge some interactions from Fedi but as a blogger I hold most social networks at arms length from my site. My site being linked on social networks is fine, but I want high-volume virality and toxicity off any pages that aren’t about social media.
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in reply to Seirdy

The only software we use to write our blog is a text editor.
in reply to django

yes, i consider Atom a better fit than full AP or even full OStatus. I even added some classic ActivityStreams 1.0 metadata to them but I’m not enabling interactive features on the site that don’t have to do with reading and sending a network-neutral WebMention for me to approve.

I’m even thinking about disabling the Fedi-Webmention bridge tbh.

in reply to breadge

it already is. if you want to run a social media site you have plenty of CMSes or Fedi servers to pick from. the rest aren’t abandonware for not being part of this particular network on top of being blogs.
in reply to Seirdy

@Seirdy fair, though I do think that blogging was the og social network via rss!

I agree not everything needs to be comment-able, and making them optional is still an issue with most ActivityPub implementations.

in reply to django

Fedi isn’t just a set of protocols; it’s also a group of people using the platform and I don’t want my home located in the middle of Time’s Square.

Low-volume Webmentions for interesting backlinks, WebSub and Atom for subscription, and Microformats/semantic markup for machine friendliness are more than enough to interoperate with any network; it’s on them to parse my posts (e.g. to generate a link preview).

What do I gain by enabling AP integration (with replies hopefully disabled) that I don’t have with links?

I’ve noticed that a lot of AP devs want to put AP in everything, despite few people actually being interested in putting everything they do online into one big social network. Not everybody wants social media all the time and everywhere.