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BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API (martijn.sh)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog

Features

Linked to a user using Lemmy’s API, no authentication
Host content on any instance
Category filters: Set one or more community as the categories
Easy to adapt to your profile
One page constraint
Anchor navigation and permalinks
Responsive
Dark / Light mode
No cookies or tracking
Interactive “about me”
No backend: serving a single lightweight page that can be hosted anywhere, including GitHub
HTML, CSS and ES6 JavaScript. That's it.

TODO

Possible compatibility issues with older iOS devices. Let me know if you encounter an issue! I'll be cleaning up the code in the meantime.
The only class not written by me is the markdown-html translation layer for which I'm using snarkdown. It does so using regex queries. As to not completely re-invent the wheel I've forked it for this purpose, but I'd like to write one myself.

GitHub | ./Martijn.sh > Blog

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That requires the running and maintenance of a federated instance, which is not easy or cheap. Doing it like this allows anyone to make a BlogOnLemmy by serving but a single webpage, no extra server cost at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, schlepping it off on other instance owners, so they host it, which as you say is not easy or cheap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The open web and API's are designed for this purpose, and don't think any instance would ever follow reddit and close up theirs.

I'm all for donating to your instance owner, altough I'd be surprised if any would mind their API being used this way. Giving credit where credit is due.