Pretty cool idea that leans into Lemmy’s ability to provide a rich and federated blogging platform. Essentially, with this tool, it seems, a lemmy post along with its comments can become static content on a static web page of your choice.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1244281
This is a great way to include comments and discussion on a static site. Take a look at the demo.
I’ll have to play with it. I haven’t looked through the code, but I’m pretty sure the default Lemmy UI isn’t SEO-friendly as well (though kbin probably is), so it would be cool to have a tool that provides it.
But maybe it doesn’t make sense for it to be your tool. I think it would be cool to have a lemmy feature where it’ll serve a cached, static page if it detects a bot is crawling it or the client doesn’t support JavaScript, and serve the regular site otherwise. Maybe your tool is the right option, or maybe someone should build a different one. IDK.
You’re right, this tool isn’t designed to address this problem and is ill-suited.
Lemmy should definitely render a static page and then “hydrate” that with JavaScript in the client. This is a common problem with modern js apps. SSR (server side rendering) is the solution but it can be very complex. You really need to build the whole app with SSR in mind, it’s not really something to bolt on as an additional feature at the end.