Madblog: Turn a Markdown folder into a federated blog
8 points by blacklight
8 points by blacklight
With the addition of ActivityPub support (through Pubby), Madblog is now a fully federated blogging platform with zero database and zero JavaScript that can run from any folder with Markdown files.
I use githubs setup which uses Jekyll, I believe. How does this compare to Jekyll which a lot of code host frameworks support?
Complete support for federation: your blog is an ActivityPub handle that can be followed by anyone on Mastodon, Lemmy etc., ActivityPub interactions are rendered directly on the blog, and ActivityPub notifications and hashtags can be submitted by just adding them to the blog. It implements a good subset of the Mastodon read-only APIs too.
Full support for Webmentions as an alternative mean of federation.
Everything is based on text files - you can literally run it on an Obsidian Vault on your laptop too, or as a tool to browse your local notes.
Guestbook mode (anyone who mentions your blog URL on the Web or your AP handle, from a client that supports Webmentions or ActivityPub, appears there)
Advanced moderation/filtering tools based on list of regexes
Aggregator mode, it can also render articles collected from other feeds