I’d really like to create a web service that implements Micropub as a front end to many different blogging systems.
With that you could connect it to your WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, or your favorite blogging platform with an API and use a single front end client or web site to publish to it.
Yes, it would require writing multiple different connectors to those other systems and require overcoming technical limitations of some of them, but overall, it could be something pretty special.
Another thing I’ve considered is supporting a subset of the WordPress REST API in a similar manner. It would be the central point for publishing to many different backends.
Mainly what I want from an API is authentication, create, update and delete of posts. Categories would be on my list as well, oh, and you’d write is pure Markdown as the format.
That’s the 30,000 foot view and I’m certain there would be lots and lots of details to work through but it could be amazing!
I know. So random. It’s the kind of stuff I think about while mowing the lawn.
Can you use ActivityPub to build a blogging system backend like I’m describing?