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title: "One of the downside of self-hosting one's own ActivityPub server is the loss of…"
date: 2026-02-24T16:43:45.635Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/24/a435d/
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# One of the downside of self-hosting one's own ActivityPub server is the loss of…

One of the downside of self-hosting one's own ActivityPub server is the loss of Brid.gy backfilling social reactions to one's content.

This is why I developed [this](https://github.com/rmdes/indiekit-endpoint-conversations) indiekit plugin, it basically translate ActivityPub activity on one's content into JF2 format so that [this](https://rmendes.net/interactions/) page can aggregate all the interactions with my content in one place. 
It also provide an API so that I can display a webmention widget in the frontend that Eleventy + AlpineJS can use to display new interactions live on the frontend.