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Mastodon 3.5
> there are tools that allow people to subscribe to an activitypub feed of your private blog
Those aren't relevant here. You're saying, essentially, "static sites/blogs, squeezed through a Mastodon-/ActivityPub-shaped hole". I'm saying, "Mastodon profiles, squeezed through the static site/blog hole (in a typical staticgen pipeline)". They have some words in common, but the resemblance ends there, at the superficial level; they are otherwise completely opposite ideas.
> I am certain I saw something like that
Assuming that "that" means the thing that I'm describing: you wouldn't have seen that, because the relevant Mastodon-interoperable parts of ActivityPub as they currently exist are fundamentally at odds with the ability to do this, for reasons mentioned in part by Gargron upthread.
The WebFinger thing is a big part of it. Mastodon's not alone here; there are other WebFinger-dependent protocols (like remoteStorage) that also suffer. This is covered in <https://github.com/konklone/jekyll-webfinger/tree/9bcb46bbab...>. (Mastodon has taken off in a way that we could probably say it has reached critical mass, even if it's still not as mainstream as Twitter, but remoteStorage not so much.) This is a design flaw at the protocol level, and my contention is that it impacts further adoption more than people realize. There's no good reason, for example, why when I encounter a remoteStorage-compatible app where I only ever intend to grant it read-only access, I shouldn't be able to give it the URL for a dataset hosted on a static site. Presently, however, you cannot—unless the application author deliberately implements some workaround. But they shouldn't need to.
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- We will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks
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A simple way to understand federation: with one user account you can participate in multiple servers, not needing to sign up on them separately. That's literally it.
The Fediverse is inherently difficult to understand and use. Their documentation, sadly, is written as a sales pitch for the federation piece of it, but doesn’t make it simple to understand. This summary is better, but parts of the explanation still don’t make sense when trying to access content. I couldn’t figure out how to see Mastodon toots from other servers, as an example.
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Improving Mastodon developer documentation
My next task is triaging and labelling issues and pull requests in the documentation repo on GitHub, with an aim to bring in as many of those existing contributions as we can. I am particularly focused on the API, and I am not currently so familiar with other topics (Mastodon server installation, administration, etc), so I'll be relying on additional help! I am aware that some of the issues and PRs have been waiting for a while, but I'll do what I can to get things improved here.
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possibly already asked, is it possible to use the same domain for mastodon, email, and a website?
that said, you can achieve what you're asking but it's tricky: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/archive/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md
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I wish to create a server but I have questions (TOS, other options, etc.)
I recommend you go through their documentation. It's very well written. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
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Should I create a new instance for the NBA?
I honestly begin going to the Mastodon docs and reading. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
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AMA with Eugen Rochko, Founder and lead developer of Mastodon, a decentralized, open-source social media platform based on open web protocols. Ask your questions here!
https://github.com/mastodon/documentation documentations are here. I guess you can upload your documentation in the manner in the style as seen there. Although the documentation that you want is more related to code.
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Twitter will remove accounts created solely to promote other social platforms
Anyhow, if you want to really learn what it is about, their docs are actually good at explaining that https://docs.joinmastodon.org/, but it is definitely too much for normal people.
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Integrating Mastodon with Astro
Before I dive in too far, let's talk about microblogging and federation as Mastodon describes it. For microblogging, the Mastodon docs say:
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Almost there - nginx doesn't have permission to the mastodon dynamic website?
The only other issue I hit was getting certbot to work. I found the answer to that little problem via an update in this GitHub issue (namely: disable the site altogether, run certbot in standalone mode, and then enable the site and update the certs section). I need to push a PR for this as well, but wording it will be a pain.
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
mastodon-ios - Official iOS app for Mastodon
fritter - A peer-to-peer social feed app. (proof of concept)
PeerTube - ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser
instances - Mastodon instances list
WriteFreely - A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.
GuideToMastodon - An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server
mastodon - A glitchy but lovable microblogging server
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
fediverse-embeds-wordpress-plugin - Embed fediverse posts on your WordPress site.