James Endres Howell: Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post

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15 Apr 2026I wrote org-static-blog-emfed, a little Emacs package that extends org-static-blog with the ability to embed a Mastodon thread in a blog post to serve as comments. The root of the Mastodon thread also serves as an announcement of the blog post to your followers. It’s based on Adrian Sampson’s Emfed, and of course Bastian Bechtold’s org-static-blog.I had shared it before, but alas, after changing Mastodon instances the comments from old posts were lost, so I disabled them on this blog. Just over the past few days I’ve found time to get it all working again.It also seems, at least in #Emacs on Mastodon, that org-static-blog has gained in popularity recently. Prompted as I was to make a few improvements, I thought I would update the README and share it again. Hope it’s useful for someone!Tags: emacs blog org-mode