Use Mastodon as a comment system for static site generator Nikola.

Mastodon is a federated microblogging network, based on the ActivityPub protocol. Users can respond to anchor posts in the Fediverse.

How to configure

The settings for Mastodon Comments can be passed to the plugin as follows:

COMMENT_SYSTEM = "mastodoncomments"
COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID = 'nerdculture.de'
GLOBAL_CONTEXT = {
    ...
    "mastodon_config": {
        'account_id': '109270094542366763',
        'account': 'fluchtkapsel'
    }
}

The COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID contains the schemeless URL of the Mastodon instance you wish to use for your comments. See this page on how to find your Mastodon account id.

How to install

You need to copy the folder $BLOG_ROOT/plugins/mastodoncomments/files/assets to $BLOG_ROOT/files/assets

cp -a plugins/mastodoncomments/files/assets files/

Additionally, it requires DOMpurify in your files/assets/js folder which you can install by

cd files/assets/js && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cure53/DOMPurify/main/dist/purify.min.js

How to use

This plugin fetches Mastodon posts which are in reply to a post that is referred to in a Nikola page's or post's meta data. Ideally, you write a blog entry, link to that blog entry on Mastodon and grab this Mastodon post's ID. Put this ID in the post's or page's meta data:

.. mastodon: 12345678901234567890

Credits

This plugin is basically a port of the work for Ghost and Hugo done by * Simon Detheridge * Carl Schwan * Veronica Berglyd Olsen

Suggested Configuration:

COMMENT_SYSTEM = "mastodoncomments"
COMMENT_SYSTEM_ID = 'nerdculture.de'
GLOBAL_CONTEXT = {
    ...
    "mastodon_config": {
        'account_id': '109270094542366763',
        'account': 'fluchtkapsel'
    }
}

Issues? Questions?

You can report issues with this plugin and request help via GitHub Issues.