Recently some things have transpired in the social media sphere that have prompted a healthy chunk of us to look for new digital “3rd places” to haunt with one another.
All debates around how worthwhile spending time on social media actually is aside, the WordPress community has quickly coalesced around Matthias Pfefferle‘s ActivityPub plugin and IndieWeb’s WordPress plugin, to which Matthias contributes.
I’m still very much learning about the intricacies of ActivityPub, IndieWeb, and the Fediverse after diving in a couple weeks ago. However, it’s not terribly complicated to get your WordPress site configured to participating in the Fediverse, and likewise, have interactions with your site across the larger web brought back onto your WordPress blog.
Got any good guides?
There seem to be no shortage (hey that’s Wabi!) of ad-hoc tip sheets for interacting on Mastodon and the broader Fediverse, but WordPress onboarding is a little more sparse. That does seem to be changing. George Hoteling’s tinkering has proven an invaluable educational resource in the WordPress-to-Mastodon department. I still can’t get Mastodon to verify my website, though. Donncha O Caoimh also has a nice write-up on getting going with ActivityPub and Webmentions.
Each new day seems to reveal some previously unturned stone that brings WordPress blogs closer to functioning as their own nodes as part of a larger social-ish network. Today I learned about Alex Kirk‘s Friends WordPress plugin, in fact.
Jason Tucker‘s got a nice little explainer for getting familiar with Jan Boddez’s “IndieBlocks” plugin. I’ll admit, like a lot of the other plugins mentioned above, it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Jason’s bit of unauthorized documentation is extremely helpful in reducing the learning curve.
Someone (provenance unknown) has compiled a matrix of mobile Mastodon apps with an exhaustive feature comparison. As noted in the post below, because of the fluid nature of app development and sudden interest in Mastodon and the Fediverse, the matrix is likely to become inaccurate very quickly unless the author is watching over 20 apps very closely, which seems unlikely.
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@tomfinley Oh good. I've been meaning to write up something like this. Glad someone got it done! Now I have something to share lol.
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Thanks for connect with me via the friends plugin! To me, it seems like the best way to connect WordPress sites together. I came here from my website and I’m automatically logged in here at yours. Magical! I hope Alex continues to maintain it and that more people install it.
Just seeing this, Billy — your comment was erroneously flagged as spam. YES! It feels so amazing and fun to be able to use our sites to interact with each other. I definitely have spent more time on my own site in the past 3 weeks than I have in the past 3 years which speaks volumes.
Loving your site design, by the way. Is that all your own custom theming, off-the-shelf, or a blend?
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@tomfinley I hadn’t seen these. I’ll review and report back. Thanks!
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@tomfinley Apparently Akismet has been tossing ActivityPub comments directly into the trash, which I didn’t think to check (figured they’d be in spam first).I tried responding on the blog but I’m not seeing that here either. Getting closer at least.
@alexstandiford @RoyGreenhilt @pfefferle Once Webmentions are functioning you should see likes/faves, reposts/boosts, & comments from Fedi or Twitter posts showing up in your comments section.However, your website-generated replies/comments at present so not federate outward, from site to Mastodon et al. There’s also no means of accessing the Fedi account that AcitivityPub creates from your author+site and interacting as that account. Temper expectations accordingly and good luck!
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