Blog-feed extension

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By default, Weird will assume that blogs live externally.

They can be plugged in by RSS feed, featured as article summaries that link out to the source material, or completely imported (regenerated and canonically linked outward if the ‘local copy’ is not supposed to be the official one).

Some great prior art from @jonbell-lot23 here: Hey Creators, Please Make Firehoses! – the latest iteration of that is rssblend:

as an author, do you want one feed that has all your stuff? Sure, that’s sort of cool. But again, the ability to say “here’s my art feed from 5 sources” and have that be different from “here’s my politics feed from 2 sources” is a good thing.

It shouldn’t be all or nothing. It should be filtered and curated.

So I’ve been building a drop dead simple rss blender tool. Give me x number of feeds, I’ll combine them. Give me a few things to blacklist, I’ll remove those items.

Imagine that being super simple to do. Go to this service. Pull some stuff together into a custom webpage/rss/activitypub/weekly email

A similar but more source-agnostic approach is exemplified in https://github.com/Lissy93/my-website by @Lissy93 and it checks a lot of boxes for us, so that's another great reference.

🆕 There’s also this anyblog-importer:

• https://github.com/muchdogesec/history4feed
• https://www.dogesec.com/blog/full_text_rss_atom_blog_feeds/

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Some users will want their own blog running on Weird itself. All of the above combined with Iroh could be a little bit like https://www.planetable.xyz/

Related:

• #5
• #8
• https://github.com/commune-os/weird/discussions/14