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You Should Always Go Full ActivityPub

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Hello good people of the indie-web, and shout-out to the fediverse! Why am I shouting out the fediverse? Surely they can’t see what I’m typing here, right now? Oh, but what if they could? What if, after I share this update via my own Mastodon account, all replies to that post came directly to this post, here, on my website. Well, buddy, ol’ pal. That’s exactly what happens now.

Not only that, but as mentioned in my changelog, there is now a very simple Mastodon-share button under every single post.

Before I go any further, I want to credit both of the people here, who made this possible.

I’d like to thank @autinerd@chaos.social for their really simple, and also extremely awesome Mastodon share button, that works with a pop-up and requires no workarounds, whatsoever. And then I’d like to thank @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net for his quick and easy guide to getting Mastodon comments to show up on your Jekyll site, with only a little bit of fiddling (which I don’t mind, I write all of my posts in frikken’ VS Code).

These things are really important, because … if you haven’t noticed, ActivityPub is the future of the internet. You can see Meta connecting Threads to our little corner of the internet, just so they can be part of it, and you see protocols like Nostr and ATP trying to do their own thing and … kind of sort of missing the mark. The future of the internet is user hosted and user maintained. Which is funny. Because that’s almost exactly what the internet was in 1995.

If there is an ActivityPub implementation that can be done with CSS and Javascript, you can bet your fluffy tail I’m going to put it onto this website. And I’m sure there’s more, such as syndicating every post to my Mastodon account, without any need to share it manually. But that? I think I’ll wait on that for another time, as today has been very busy in web development for me.

I also made the navigation hamburger a defined size, and scrollable, so that I can put as much crap in there as I want, and not burden your screen, whether you’re browsing this on your clunky Debian laptop, or your shiny new iPhone 15, it should now be one uniform size. Hopefully.

Anyway, I just wanted to make an update on this, and hand out some thank-yous and corresponding links so that anyone else interested in doing these things, can easily find them.

Enjoy your weekends!


mkultra.monster is independent, in that it is written, developed, and maintained by one person. Written, developed, and maintained, not for scrapers, bots, scammers, algorithms, or grifters: But for people to follow and read, just like the way it used to be, back in the golden age of the internet.
mkultra.monster is independent, in that it is written, developed, and maintained by one person. Written, developed, and maintained, not for scrapers, bots, scammers, algorithms, or grifters: But for people to follow and read, just like the way it used to be, back in the golden age of the internet.


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