Idea: IndieWeb support for FlatPress

[azett]

I recently read about the IndieWeb (which is around quite some time!). It uses different open formats and protocols to interconnect content producers and consumers in an automated fashion.
For example, think of having your next FlatPress blog post being shown in the timeline of your followers on the Fediverse, such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, or even Threads.

With this, you'd have full control over your blog and its content - as you do now - but without having to forego the networking opportunities of the well-known proprietary social networks.

Sounds kinda cool to me, maybe we can explore this some time and learn how to have FlatPress IndieWeb-connectible.

• IndieWeb home
• IndieWeb formats
• IndieWeb protocols
• Article in c't magazine (German), part 2

[azett]

Started a poll on Mastodon and Twitter:
https://fosstodon.org/@flatpress/113141449303171773
https://x.com/FlatPress/status/1835288205312074076

[Fraenkiman]

FlatPress currently offers a concrete Fediverse bridge via its Mastodon plugin. Despite its extensive feature set, the project does not compromise its core architecture for Mastodon integration. From an architectural standpoint, this is a major advantage. FlatPress remains true to its founding principle: a simple, easy-to-install blogging engine that works with files rather than a database. The Mastodon integration sits alongside it as a plugin and is not hard-coded into the core. The central challenge lies less in missing features than in FlatPress’s request-based operating model. For crawlers, monitoring systems, or AI bots, it likely doesn’t matter whether FlatPress delivers a page in 200 milliseconds or in significantly longer. From FlatPress’s perspective, however, it is precisely such a regular GET request that triggers the necessary synchronization process. As long as complex external communication must take place within normal web requests, there will always be limitations regarding load, response time, and background processing. For personal and smaller self-hosted blogs, the current approach is nevertheless very practical. For broader, universal IndieWeb support, additional protocols and background processing decoupled from page requests would be necessary in the long term. I fear, however, that FlatPress is not suitable for universal IndieWeb support.