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Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub

by zoul on 10/11/23, 5:47 PM with 51 comments

  • by nologic01 on 10/11/23, 9:07 PM

    This might become bigger than mastodon itself. Wordpress is much easier / cheaper to self-host.

    Along the same lines there is talk about discourse and nextcloud extensions which also have large installed bases and amenable to single-click type installs.

    In a sense any self-hosted server that publishes stuff is a candidate to get integrated into the fediborg.

    What would be really sweet is to pre-emptively embed activitypub federation into generic platforms like django, phoenix, laravel etc. Right now various teams work in uncoordinated projects all implementing similar functionality.

  • by zoul on 10/11/23, 5:51 PM

    Replies appear to work, too: “In addition, replies to your posts from these platforms are automatically turned into comments on your WordPress blog, creating a more interactive and dynamic conversation around your content. Synchronicity for the win!”

  • by xnx on 10/11/23, 7:43 PM

    I'd place more money on Wordpress being the future of Twitter than I would Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon.

  • by danijelb on 10/11/23, 11:53 PM

    It's great they are adopting the standard but those aliases are ugly.

    Instead of openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com it should be openprotocolfanblog@wordpress.com

  • by ChrisArchitect on 10/11/23, 7:46 PM

    Definitely interesting development.

    How does it work tho? It's just like the 'old' RSS->tweets kind of thing? or does the whole blog post get sent into the fediverse as a post? Making it kind of unwieldly? Microblogging is dead? Long live microblogging.

  • by abdullahkhalids on 10/11/23, 8:19 PM

    I have my own statically generated website/blog. I won't switch to Wordpress. How can I integrate ActivityPup into my blog in the same way?

    Edit: I am fine with adding dynamic features to the site. I see there are implementations [1], which kind of are in the ballpark.

    [1] https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec https://github.com/davecheney/pub

  • by ruined on 10/11/23, 7:57 PM

    this post doesn't seem to be published via activitypub, which seems like a missed opportunity

  • by rsynnott on 10/12/23, 12:29 PM

    I haven't been keeping up with Wordpress, but do they still support pingbacks as a first-class construct? Those could be interesting in an ActivityPub context; they're arguably the progenitor of things like quote tweets.

  • by mikece on 10/11/23, 8:16 PM

    It is more accurate to say that the ActivityPub plugin[1] which was acquired by Automattic has hit 1.0 and is available to be used on WordPress.com. Yes, Mastodon implements (most of) ActivityPub but it's hardly the only platform on the web that does.

    [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/advanced/

  • by alberth on 10/12/23, 12:05 AM

    Just remember …

    WordPress.com != open source WordPress