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Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog

2025-02-21 Mastodon Comments Comments powered by Mastodon! I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat.

But recently they sent out a mail saying they were not longer offering a free ad-free option, and it's not worth paying for at my usage levels, so they got the boot. And the site builder converts that to HTML, sticks some common headers and footers on there, and then, importantly, substitutes some text in the result with other values. I use that ID a couple places in the code, so the site builder emits some HTML for "view" and "reply" buttons that look like this (wrapped for ease):

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