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Madblog: A Markdown Folder That Federates Everywhere

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 10, 2026 21:49

Using #Madblog as the easiest way to spin up an Indieweb/ActivityPub-compatible blog.

Zero db, zero JS, entirely hosted on text files.

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https://lemmy.world/u/WhiteOakBayou posted on Mar 11, 2026 02:58
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Nice project. Your blog looks good as well. I’m impressed by how simple it all is to set up.

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https://lemmy.world/u/Dust0741 posted on Mar 11, 2026 04:18
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Ww this fills a niche that I had but hadn’t been able to think through yet. Amazing!

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https://lemmy.ca/u/ArchEngel posted on Mar 11, 2026 04:59
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Neat, this looks really great! I am already enjoying a similar function for my blog via the Digital Gardens plugin in Obsidian the markdown note taking app. Makes it super easy to make a blog out of your preexisting notes, but even with that I still have a hard time blogging often.

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https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/u/admin posted on Mar 11, 2026 07:02
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👑 looks great ! Do you have any example blogposts showing the diagram and latex equation feature? I haven’t seen anywhere else in the fediverse do this

https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/activities/7c28f479-54b3-4e28-a3c6-f3cf094b18f8
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https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/u/tofu posted on Mar 11, 2026 08:24
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Looks pretty cool!

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https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/u/tofu posted on Mar 11, 2026 08:45
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So, mentioning you like this shows up in the guestbook? @fabio@manganiello.blog

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https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/FlowerFan posted on Mar 11, 2026 13:29
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it works so well that it federated into this community twice! /s

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https://lemmy.ml/u/pedroapero posted on Mar 11, 2026 20:51
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Looks similar to Plume, the “no DB required” is neat though!

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 12, 2026 02:33
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Not yet but you can try again 🙂 There was a bug where mentions without direct URLs were discarded but it should be fixed now. Full federation with Lemmy however is still an open point because it requires me to properly implement a Group actor for full threadiverse compatibility.

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 12, 2026 02:33
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Not on my official blog(s), but there’s a post on the blog I used for tests: https://aptest1.ocus.top/article/Test

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 12, 2026 02:35
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There’s an example with LaTeX here https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Build-an-open-source-drone-with-a-Raspberry-Pi-and-Platypush

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 12, 2026 02:54
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I’ll test it just in case by giving @fabio@manganiello.blog a shout

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https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/u/tofu posted on Mar 12, 2026 12:28
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Looks like @fabio@manganiello.blog made a cool thing here!

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https://lemdro.id/u/claim_arguably posted on Mar 12, 2026 13:23
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Does it work only for a single user? Is there a free instance I could create blog on?

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https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/u/tofu posted on Mar 12, 2026 13:33
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It worked! Very cool

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https://lemmy.manganiello.tech/u/fabio posted on Mar 12, 2026 16:46
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At the current state it’s only single-user, but I’m working on a multi-user implementation. It should be available as soon as I have a proper implementation for the ActivityPub Group actor (similar to what WriteFreely already does, where you have a Group @blog actor that aggregates post from multiple Person actors). That would also unlock full compatibility with Lemmy/NodeBB and other threadiverse implementations. But it takes a while to get done right - and a multi-user set up is also a design challenge when your selling point is to have a blog running on a single folder with Markdown files.

About a free instance, it’s not currently available (you’ll need your own domain and host and then you can just spin up a Docker container), but AFAIK YunoHost is considering adding it to their offering.

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https://piefed.social/u/synechiaa posted on Mar 18, 2026 17:44
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This feels very cool…but I think it would look a bit confusing if all the fediverse reactions and the replies and webmetions here are displayed together.It feels like uncategorized message notification records😵

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