Cody Casterline
Mastodon, now in FeoBlog
One of the first questions I got when I told folks about FeoBlog was "Does it support ActivityPub?" (i.e.: "Does it interoperate with Mastodon?")
And while there are some reasons why it can't interoperate directly with ActivityPub, it's always possible to sync data back and forth.
So, I wrote feomasto, a little tool to sync my Mastodon feed into FeoBlog. You can see the results here.
Some design decisions I'm interested to hear feedback on:
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Since FeoBlog is all public, I decided to only sync "public" and "unlisted" posts from Mastodon, so as not to expose any private posts from users I follow. (i.e.: not "private" or "direct" posts.)
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So as not to unnecessarily use bandwidth of (often for-free) Mastodon servers, I decided to not inline images. Though, I could see myself coming back and deciding to add them as FeoBlog attachments, which would allow for inlining them without touching Mastodon servers. (Beyond the first download.) For now, I just link to the attachments so you can click in and view them as you wish.
Let me know what you think!
I'm also still really enjoying writing stuff with Deno. Not having to deal with package.json, tsconfig.json, npm, etc, just removes a lot of friction. Plus, it's super easy to write, run, and share a standalone script that imports dependencies from online. (Though, I haven't really used the new module stuff in Node, so maybe you can do that there too these days?)