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   Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 23:08:00 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

   WordPress being able to post via ActivityPub to Mastodon would be a big deal. And I'm happy to see Automattic get involved in this space. They're in the hosting business, so their incentives are much more aligned with the Fediverse than Meta, which is just centralized surveillance capitalism. Plus, Automattic is run by people who understand and support open source software and Meta is run by greedy, stupid assholes.

   (Disclosure: I worked at WordPress on Reader.)

   https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110003205779053475

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 23:08:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @fraying given that you worked on Reader, do you think that making WP a full ActivityPub reader, also, would be useful?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 03:37:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @fraying I agree! I wonder if @pfefferle has considered it before...? I don't think Reader is Open Source or easy to hook into, iirc.

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     Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 03:37:57 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan I think that would be great! Reader was always kind of a stuck-in-between kinda product that never got the attention it deserved, and going full fediverse in/out could breathe new life into it. (I had huge plans for it that never came to fruition.)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 03:52:57 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Alex Kirk

     @pfefferle @fraying @alex cool! I'll try it out.

     I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again: thank you for this great work. It's one of the AP implementations that makes me most hopeful for the future of the fediverse.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 03:52:58 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Alex Kirk

     @evan @fraying I indeed thought about it, but as you said: it is not open source. But the plugin supports hooks/actions/events, so other plugins can use informations provided by the ActivityPub plugin. One of the first plugins that uses it to implement a basic "following" support is friends https://github.com/akirk/friends by @alex