I am looking for a fediverse solution for a blog and I tried it with writefreely, but it has some disadvantages I can't live with.

The most important one is, that it should be possible to communicate with people within the fediverse. People should be able to comment on every article with a fediverse account, like it is already possible between Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube and others. But comments aren't a thing with writefreely and this is sad.

After using Lemmy for a few days I just thought if it is possible to use it as a blog and ask on lemmys github if it is possible to restrict a group so only one person could post new articles, but all others can comment. And the answer is yes!

But would it be possible to use it as a blog?

Imagine I would have a group called "utopify.org - Research & Development" and would post current progress about a blog series and you can only comment on it. Would it be possible and would it be something you want to see on Lemmy or would this just be an abuse of the software.

If all of this is just a no-go, are there other ways in the fediverse to have a blog article, which can be shared on the fediverse and be commented on?

  • human_no_4815162342@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    There was a guy on GitHub that added a Lemmy comment section to his blog hosted on his website. So it's already an accepted although niche usecase.

    I feel like a single user instance of Pleroma would be more appropriate (and easier to host) but even though the character limit can be increased the remote limit of other instances might reduce your visibility, I am not sure.

    • maxmoon@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Because Pleroma is pretty similar to Mastodon, I don't think it will be good, because both use a time line and important stuff could go to the void if it was posted to the wrong time or it just goes down between a lot of content.

    • maxmoon@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Interesting, I had a similar idea to just link to a Mastodon/Lemmy thread in the blog article, saying "Here is the comment section!", because I want to keep a static website.

      • saba@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        on my pelican generated website I have the rss feed of my mastodon account. I have a script that downloads & converts the rss and then pelican runs and regenerated and includes that on my site. Something similar might work with your idea for comments.

          • saba@lemmy.sdf.org
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            1 year ago

            https://mastodon.sdf.org/@saba/110470671030115751 here's a mastodon post I made about it and on my site you can see my feed on the bottom of the page: https://chven.us/profiles/sam.html

              • saba@lemmy.sdf.org
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                1 year ago

                If you decide to try the rss-to-html.py, let me know if you want some help or to see what I changed. I don't know python well, but I did change a few things in it to get it to work right for me and to include the photos. Or if you come across anything else that does similar, I'd like to have a look at it.

                • maxmoon@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  Thanks a lot.

                  I will only link to a fediverse post in the end of a blog article like "Here is the official comment section", because I want to keep my blog as static as possible.

  • ajjlyman@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    You could... but it's singly not setup for that. There are blog softwares out there that support activitypub-- I have no experience with it, but microblog.pub was nativity designed as an activitypub blog. There's also a WordPress plugin that's basically official (maintained by the company that owns WordPress.com) and has known good integration to at least mastodon, so I would assume it works well with lemmy, peertube, etc, since AFAICT, mastodon is the most opinionated of them when it comes to activitypub conformance.

    • maxmoon@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      microblog.pub

      Ooof, the design of this website is pretty terrible. I couldn't figure out where a post starts and where it ends or what is even part of a blog post or other stuff on the website?

      And in general it really looks polluted and invites people to pollute. Not really something I was looking for. But thank you for mentioning it :)