I’m really happy to see the ActivityPub plugin enabled for all free and paid WordPress.com accounts. I’ve been using the plugin on this blog for about a week, thanks to Matthias Pfefferle at WordPress, and I have some thoughts about it so far.
The first thing is that it’s definitely more like having a fediverse add-on to your WordPress blog than like using WordPress as your main fediverse portal. That’s OK, and I’d kind of like to see more applications integrate that way.
The second is that it’s extremely smooth. People who follow me on this blog (“@[email protected]”) will get pushed blog posts when I post them. There isn’t anything else I have to do. The blog posts appear like native fediverse posts, not as links (although the link is included at the end).
Best of all, when I get likes or comments, they act like native WordPress likes and comments. I have a chance to approve them and manage them. The conversation turns out to be really natural in the blog interface.
I have been followed more than 180 times, which is pretty neat; and comments are pretty lively and active. I haven’t seen any get caught by Akismet, but I have seen some of them in the queue waiting for me to approve.
I am really excited to see what happens next here. Somewhere around 40% of Web sites run on WordPress. I don’t know how many of those are on wp.com, but probably a lot. It would be cool to see how well they start lighting up on the fediverse.
If you’ve got a WordPress blog that’s fediverse-enabled, please let me know in the comments. I’d like to start putting together a directory of recommendations.
https://evanp.me/2023/10/12/activitypub-on-wordpress-com/
Evan Prodromou /
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2023-10-12 20:59:23
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