Fediverss

You might have noticed that this blog has suddenly acquired a comments section at the end of the articles. I've tried some work arounds in the past - in a previous version of the blog using an external service, or manually linking to fediverse posts made about the blog post - it never sat quite right.

For this version of the blog, I didn't want to force people to create a log in for "my blog" or run a bunch of dedicated comment receiving infrastructure, but I also didn't the comments to be controlled by a third party service with all the archival and privacy concerns that implied.

So I've now built fediverss. This is a program designed to sit on the same server as a static blog automate the process of keep that blog on "the fediverse" via its rss feed. It is very much pre-release quality at the moment, but I'd very much like to polish it up so that it can be deployed easily by non-coders and in environments where running it on the same server as the blog isn't practical. That shouldn't be impossible, especially given that all the dependencies are already managed in Nix, so much this space for future developments.

And, you know, leave a comment via the fediverse if this seems interesting!