1 yr. ago • 100%

I Made a Lemmy Comment Loader for Static Sites

https:// leviwheatcroft.github.io /lemmy-blog-spam/

Pretty cool idea that leans into Lemmy's ability to provide a rich and federated blogging platform. Essentially, with this tool, it seems, a lemmy post along with its comments can become static content on a static web page of your choice.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1244281

This is a great way to include comments and discussion on a static site. Take a look at the demo.

Lemmy Bots and Tools @programming.dev I Made a Lemmy Comment Loader for Static Sites

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This is pretty cool. Perfect idea for a small standalone Lemmy instance.

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- Or even just a personal community which you use as a blog. It's even suggested in the documentation. The key being that you can make any community "moderators only", meaning that only moderators can post, while anyone can still comment and vote. Which is just like a blog, except if it's convenient, you can run it out of any instance that someone else is running. And then, with a tool like this, load it up to your own personal web page, and have a public blog that's automatically federated!
  
  Of course, running it out of your own instance would give you more control, though as the moderator of your own personal community you have a good deal of control already.
  
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This is actually really cool! It's work like this that helps expand the technology!

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It needs a good UX for participating, maybe add lemmy buttons like upvote/downvote and reply and when they are clicked redirect to lemmy?

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- I didn’t make this, I only cross posted it. Also it’s very much in alpha.
  
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- That's not really possible because there's no way to know which instance to direct someone to. No point directing them to an instance where they don't have an account.
  
  Also I don't think showing buttons like upvote which just redirect to another page is a good UX at all.
  
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  That’s not really possible because there’s no way to know which instance to direct someone to. No point directing them to an instance where they don’t have an account.
  
  At least they will know it is on lemmy , then they can figure out how to use it. And that's a general problem of the fediverse, there are extensions that redirect you to your home instance for that.
  
  Also I don’t think showing buttons like upvote which just redirect to another page is a good UX at all.
  
  I think it is at least better then the current state, where you have a tiny button that testing with heat maps will probably show is almost invisible, maybe adding text "go to lemmy to participate in the discussion" is also a decent option.
  
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a lemmy post along with its comments can become static content on a static web page of your choice

This isn't quite right. The "static web page" (the pre-rendered page) doesn't include the Lemmy post or comments. When your browser renders the static page, the browser will then pull down the lemmy comments.

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Could this help with SEO? I don't think I've seen a lemmy instance show up in a search yet.

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- The short answer is no. It doesn't create a static page from lemmy comments. It loads dynamic lemmy comments into static pages.
  
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  If they include links back to the original lemmy instance, it should help a bit. At least in the past the ranking algorithm liked seeing lots of links from other sites.
  
  I'm going to need to brush up on my SEO skills. That's really the last thing I'm looking for.
  
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- I don't think so (as it's about hosting lemmy content statically outside of lemmy.
  
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