Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub

This might become bigger than mastodon itself. Wordpress is <i>much</i> easier &#x2F; 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!”

I&#x27;d place more money on Wordpress being the future of Twitter than I would Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon.

It&#x27;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&#x27;s just like the &#x27;old&#x27; RSS-&gt;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&#x2F;blog. I won&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddsundsted&#x2F;ktistec">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;toddsundsted&#x2F;ktistec</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davecheney&#x2F;pub">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davecheney&#x2F;pub</a>

this post doesn&#x27;t seem to be published via activitypub, which seems like a missed opportunity

I haven&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s hardly the only platform on the web that does.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;activitypub&#x2F;advanced&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;activitypub&#x2F;advanced&#x2F;</a>

Just remember …<p>WordPress.com != open source WordPress