listnr is an ActivityPub bridge for static blogs

When I moved to a static blog, I also removed comments. Or maybe I did it while I still used Wordpress, I'm not sure. The point is I didn't remove them for technical reasons, I removed them because even in 2012, hosting a comments section had already started being less rewarding than it used to be: the ratio of comments I wanted to read to comments that contributed little — disingenuous, malicious, or just clueless ones — kept getting worse. But it's nice for a blog to provide feedback mechanisms. I see it when I read something on my RSS reader, and I want to like, or leave a short comment to let the author know I appreciate what they wrote, or give them feedback on the topic they cover. Enter listnr. listnr is a ActivityPub "bridge": it maintains a Fediverse identity (an ActivityPub actor that anyone on Mastodon can follow), like @blog@vrypan.net it watches my RSS feed and publishes new posts as they appear it provides a simple API that a small js widget can use to show likes, boosts…