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David Revoy

I may have found an alternative solution to my blog's commenting system! 😺

The synchronization of comments from my Mastodon account. It's something I tried and abandoned, but I'm giving it another try after reading your comments. Well, I explain more on the blog and also share the source code:

Blog post, source code, and demo:
→ davidrevoy.com/article981/i-ma

Bonus: Because I'm happy, here's a happy Mastodon mascot as a postman that I painted this morning.
#blog #selfhosting #php

A digital painting of the Mastodon mascot as a postman, happy delivering message. License: "Mastodon mascot as postman" by David Revoy, based on mascot of joinmastodon.org − CC-BY-4.0
26 Jul 2023 at 16:50 | Open on framapiaf.org
59 comments
Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸

@davidrevoy I’m rebuilding a content platform of mine and I’m all over this. I’ve always wanted a comments board that could be in multiple places at once!

26 Jul 2023 at 16:51 | Open on sfba.social
Fabián Fucci
bison ✅
Andrea Grandi 🦕

@davidrevoy the postman mascot is simply beautiful 😍

26 Jul 2023 at 16:57 | Open on mastodon.social
David Frank

@davidrevoy I am sure you also looked into “webmention”? It also does what you would like to do but require a bit of setup.

26 Jul 2023 at 17:01 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
David Revoy

@bitinn Hey, I'm totally discovering it with your message. Thanks, I only read the introduction on w3.org/TR/webmention/ and I'm really interested. I'll try to find more real life example and integration in PHP.

26 Jul 2023 at 17:07 | Open on framapiaf.org
David Frank

@davidrevoy great I had it setup on one of my blog, with a bridge, you could copy not just replies but also favorites to your blog.

See a quick example on my site (integrated via JavaScript): marisa.club/a-new-adventure/

26 Jul 2023 at 17:18 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
LilaTequila
:terminyal: 𝙹𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚢 :~$

@davidrevoy
It's a very good idea !
Thanks for sharing the code 😄

26 Jul 2023 at 17:07 | Open on social.wakemu.fr
Jaime Herazo

@davidrevoy
I feel like Lemmy or Kbin would make more sense for this but I guess ActivityPub makes it irrelevant since they can interact anyway

Excellent idea!

26 Jul 2023 at 17:15 | Open on mastodon.ie
Marco Bresciani

@davidrevoy
Glad you're back. hope everything will go fine. 👍🏻

26 Jul 2023 at 17:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
Touhoppai

@davidrevoy Un poil plus compliqué pour poster, mais c'est un faible prix à payer pour la tranquillité d'esprit.
J'espère que l'on aura, à terme, plus d'implémentation activityPub depuis les sites de blog (je crois que WordPress le propose depuis peu) pour que le post avec un lien vers le billet de blog puisse être directement le contenu du blog. Ce serait génial d'arriver jusque là !

26 Jul 2023 at 17:20 | Open on mastodon.social
David Revoy

@touhoppai Oui, le va-et-vient après avoir fini l'article d'aller poster sur mastodon, récupérer l'ID, et l'entrer dans l'admin est du taf supplémentaire de mon côté. Il y a certainement des façons d'automatiser tout ça, je vais y regarder afin de pouvoir poster plus fluidement.

26 Jul 2023 at 21:23 | Open on framapiaf.org
Nartance

@davidrevoy And that's a win! Congrats :D \o/

26 Jul 2023 at 17:22 | Open on framapiaf.org
Nemiryah

Sounds like an amazing way to strengthen participation, good job! 🎉

26 Jul 2023 at 17:22 | Open on s.ilustre.li
Julian Fietkau

@davidrevoy It's nice to see another implementation of blog comments using the Mastodon "context" API. 😀 I use it for fietkau.blog in a similar way. I additionally filter the replies by visibility and only show the ones set to "public".

If you'd like to read more about how to render custom emoji and other details, I recommend @cassidy's blog post about his implementation: cassidyjames.com/blog/fedivers

26 Jul 2023 at 17:28 | Open on fietkau.social
David Revoy

@julian Thank you for the link! Very interesting. 👍

@cassidy

26 Jul 2023 at 20:31 | Open on framapiaf.org
Bloodywing

@davidrevoy *me searching for the xss in your code* :meru_lul:

but it looks fine so far. :meru_headpat:

26 Jul 2023 at 17:49 | Open on eggplant.social
David Revoy

@bloodywing Oh thanks for checking. I'm really not really skilled at coding PHP, it's limited for my personal use and my blog and Pepper&Carrot website. It you ever see a big mistake in the code I post, do not hesitate to tell me. Thanks.

26 Jul 2023 at 20:26 | Open on framapiaf.org
YoYunix

@davidrevoy I love how it looks exactly the same as the old system. Do you think that after a few years worth of new blog posts that it will ever get to the point where it pings your mastodon instance constantly? It’s cool that it updates every hour, but do you think blog posts will get old enough that you can be safe updating it daily or weekly to avoid this?

26 Jul 2023 at 17:49 | Open on mastodon.social
David Revoy

@yoyunix Thanks. To be fair, I doubt it will last long. Accidents of instance can happen, losing all comments, or the service might also go sunset and be replaced by a new tech more lightweight in the future. Maybe the API will change too with the new versions, up to a point it's too hard to follow for my low skill.

Right now my system on the blog has a cache of 1h for the post of the week, 4h for the post of the month, and 12h after that. Let see in 5 years if If Mastodon IDs are stable 😉

26 Jul 2023 at 20:23 | Open on framapiaf.org
YoYunix

@davidrevoy any idea what could be a replacement if this fails?

26 Jul 2023 at 21:15 | Open on mastodon.social
David Revoy

@yoyunix No idea 😇 The future time will bring new challenges but also probably new solutions. I'll study that when it will happen.

26 Jul 2023 at 21:19 | Open on framapiaf.org
coffe☕
nunux

@davidrevoy

Merci pour vos oeuvres et vos contributions à l'Open source.

😉

26 Jul 2023 at 17:58 | Open on mastodon.social
jcarnu

@davidrevoy
Nice job! Nice news!
I love all your créations, they are so joyful !

26 Jul 2023 at 18:06 | Open on mastodon.xyz
ApisNecros

@davidrevoy I'm having troubles creating account on that gitlab instance, but I wanted to let you know that lines 83 and 177 can be removed. You already confirmed that `$mastodon_post_id` only contains numbers, and you don't need a content-type header since it's a GET request

26 Jul 2023 at 18:06 | Open on ioc.exchange
David Revoy

@ApisNecros Thank you for the advice. I'll note the changes and edit it them soon!

26 Jul 2023 at 20:16 | Open on framapiaf.org
Nomis

@davidrevoy nice happy ending, let's hope troll will stay away. Nice postman ❤️

26 Jul 2023 at 18:32 | Open on framapiaf.org
David Revoy

@nomis38 Thanks! Yes, I hope too. I also know the contributors and readers of the blog may help now and take action if they find something to report. It should give a harder time for the trolls and haters to get a message in there with a long life time.

26 Jul 2023 at 20:13 | Open on framapiaf.org
Dad
Valvin (framapiaf)

@davidrevoy oh nice! Great you've found the reason of missing posts on framapiaf 🙂

26 Jul 2023 at 18:57 | Open on framapiaf.org
Ben Sunshine

@davidrevoy
Wow nice. I will implement this in my website maybe, wheh ill have a blog, and where was the logo..?
Well enough to do!

26 Jul 2023 at 19:29 | Open on troet.cafe
Adam Dalliance

@davidrevoy Great. I was gonna suggest that adding activitypub replies to the post was best till you said you'd already tried it.

Glad you've found a way that works.

26 Jul 2023 at 19:29 | Open on boing.world
farcaller

@davidrevoy It's a somewhat roundabout way to comment, but otherwise the experience actually feels nice! Just needs some standard so a browser extension could inject the instance reply UI or something.

26 Jul 2023 at 19:32 | Open on hdev.im
David Revoy

@farcaller Thanks, and a standard or a browser extension for that would be indeed a cool idea.

26 Jul 2023 at 19:59 | Open on framapiaf.org
Lil NPC
maxmoon 🌱

@davidrevoy Why are our avatars replaced with chatons on the website? Is this because of copyrights?

26 Jul 2023 at 19:42 | Open on veganism.social
David Revoy

@utopify_org Hey, Good question. I thought a lot about this. It's because of five good reasons:

1. Bandwidth (with many visitors, hot-linking them to all instance all the time is pretty heavy)
2. Privacy. Hotlinking them would give also log to instance owners of who connect to my website.
3. Loading speed: waiting for all servers to get pictures.
4. Copyright, and/or trolling possibly with p0rn or gore.
5. Aesthetic: I love the cat avatars peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2 🙂

@utopify_org Hey, Good question. I thought a lot about this. It's because of five good reasons:

1. Bandwidth (with many visitors, hot-linking them to all instance all the time is pretty heavy)
2. Privacy. Hotlinking them would give also log to instance owners of who connect to my website.
3. Loading speed: waiting for all servers to get pictures.
4. Copyright, and/or trolling possibly with p0rn or gore.
5. Aesthetic: I love the cat avatars peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2

26 Jul 2023 at 20:04 | Open on framapiaf.org
maxmoon 🌱

@davidrevoy wow, okay, a lot of stuff I wouldn't even thought of until I would run into it.

Thanks for the explanation.

26 Jul 2023 at 21:05 | Open on veganism.social
David Revoy

@utopify_org No worry. I ran into all of them deeply and hard. That's why I keep them in mind now.

26 Jul 2023 at 21:10 | Open on framapiaf.org
NeroBurner

@davidrevoy that's an awesome way of having a comment system. Loving it. And thanks a lot for sharing how you set it up :mastoholdhands:

26 Jul 2023 at 19:50 | Open on aut.social
Noe 🐝✨

@davidrevoy

Seems to work smoothly, congrats!

26 Jul 2023 at 19:52 | Open on framapiaf.org
Rupert Reynolds
Roni Laukkarinen

@davidrevoy Awesome! I've been wanting for something like this, because didn't get hang of the webmentions. Thank you so much for sharing the code, might as well implement it.

26 Jul 2023 at 22:11 | Open on mementomori.social
Anthony Bosio
David Revoy

@abosio Thanks for the link. I discovered it this evening thanks to another comment. I'm now curious about his method for fetching the custom emojis 🙂

26 Jul 2023 at 22:47 | Open on framapiaf.org
Anthony Bosio

@davidrevoy Cool, I skimmed through the replies but didn’t see it. I figured it my be worth a review in case there were any useful nuggets like that.

26 Jul 2023 at 22:49 | Open on fosstodon.org
AppleTalk

@davidrevoy thanks for sharing! I’ve experimented with Mastodon-powered comments on my tiny site too. not quite finished with it yet, will definitely look at your code for inspiration.

27 Jul 2023 at 2:00 | Open on sfba.social
Klebs (Les Ateliers PHV)

@davidrevoy Merci de nous avoir encouragé à garder les commentaires sur nos blogs, voire à les intégrer à #Mastodon. Le mien n'est pas codé avec PHP mais je crois avoir trouvé qui me servira. À suivre...
En passant, je suis ravi que tu aies trouvé un autre moyen de rester au courant des opinions de tes lecteurs.

27 Jul 2023 at 2:35 | Open on mastodon.top
~/hyde

@davidrevoy Carl's post inspired me too 😉

Well done 👍

27 Jul 2023 at 8:47 | Open on lazybear.social
Nartagnan ⏚

@davidrevoy

Quand je suis content, je partage un smiley. Et toi tu nous offre une peinture 😍

27 Jul 2023 at 9:15 | Open on mstdn.fr
Kosmimatis🔥💍

@davidrevoy that is great solution! Bravo!!! Keep up your great job!

27 Jul 2023 at 13:00 | Open on handmade.social
loaExMachina

@davidrevoy Hell yeah! The legendary FOSS artist found a FOSS solution! I look forwards to commenting on the next Pepper&Carrot with this system!

27 Jul 2023 at 15:26 | Open on jorts.horse
🧿 thgs

@davidrevoy aren't the old comments re-federated? There might be a chance you can still get them back. Except those made by people in the instance that had the problem, I would guess the others should federate again.

Or maybe there is an issue with that as the initial post you made is lost? (So all comments along with it have no real reference).

27 Jul 2023 at 16:23 | Open on phpc.social
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