This might become bigger than mastodon itself. Wordpress is <i>much</i> easier / cheaper to self-host.<p>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.<p>In a sense any self-hosted server that publishes stuff is a candidate to get integrated into the fediborg.<p>What would be really sweet is to pre-emptively embed activitypub federation into <i>generic</i> platforms like django, phoenix, laravel etc. Right now various teams work in uncoordinated projects all implementing similar functionality.
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!”
It's great they are adopting the standard but those aliases are ugly.<p>Instead of openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com it should be openprotocolfanblog@wordpress.com
Definitely interesting development.<p>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.
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?<p>Edit: I am fine with adding dynamic features to the site. I see there are implementations [1], which kind of are in the ballpark.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec">https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec</a> <a href="https://github.com/davecheney/pub">https://github.com/davecheney/pub</a>
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.
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.<p>[1] <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/advanced/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/advanced/</a>