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   jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (jaz@toot.wales)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 02:57:59 JST jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

   • Tim Chambers
   • photomatt

   @tchambers @photomatt according to Matt there's 5k installs, but FediDB showing ~2500. I'm wondering how to improve discoverability (I had to add a few myself manually) - and how to drive installs - according to #SOTW there's not much interest (although Tumblr is next up for #ActivityPub integration) - WP value proposition is not clear, yet.

   For me, I'd rather get the blog feed directly than a link via an author's account pulling in a RSS feed and reposting.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 02:57:58 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Tim Chambers
     • photomatt

     @jaz @tchambers @photomatt all stats are not very accurate, because I think the .org stats do not include .com and fediDB does also only have a subset of blogs indexed. But still way below 10.000 I would say.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 04:25:53 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Tim Chambers
     • photomatt

     @jaz @tchambers @photomatt there was a bug, that WordPress.com blogs couldn't be indexed, but @dansup fixed it asap. He also provided an API to auto-ping FediDB and we already implemented that in WordPress.com (kind of Ping-O-Matic 2.0).

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     jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (jaz@toot.wales)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 04:25:55 JST jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • photomatt

     @pfefferle @tchambers @photomatt I can imagine why it's not appropriate, but maybe a way to tell people who have enabled it on .com accounts to announce their account to a service like FediDB might be nice. I have three .com blogs I had to add manually, I doubt they'd ever be discovered otherwise.

     Maybe I'll start yet another list of things so we at least have a directory of blogs to follow.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 14:48:31 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Tim Chambers
     • fedidb
     • photomatt
     • Dennis Nunes

     @nunesdennis @jaz @tchambers @photomatt @fedidb there is a „add instance“ in the left sidebar

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     Dennis Nunes (nunesdennis@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 14:48:32 JST Dennis Nunes

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • fedidb
     • photomatt

     @jaz @tchambers @pfefferle @photomatt How did you add your blogs to fedidb? (I dont see this option here https://fedidb.org/software/wordpress )

     CC: @fedidb

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     Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 23:21:32 JST Boris Mann

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Richard MacManus
     • Jaz (IFTAS)
     • photomatt

     @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @ricmac @jaz@toot.wales @tchambers @photomatt yup, agreed with Jaz.

     Much like how authors have had control over “full or partial feeds” in RSS, I’d say choose the Note type (partial, this is what represents default microblogging today) or the Article type for the full article.

     Also: I push to my main account because I can’t reply as my blog account easily.

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     Jaz (IFTAS) (jaz@mastodon.iftas.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 23:21:33 JST Jaz (IFTAS)

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Richard MacManus
     • photomatt

     @ricmac @jaz@toot.wales @tchambers @photomatt If the blog pushes the entire article just pull the blog into my feed behind a "read more", let me consume in the client.

     Right now a lot of folks have an AP account and a bot that monitors their blog's RSS feed, pushing titles out as AP messages. This leads to multiple accounts representing a popular site's RSS feed.

     Instead of following the author or fakebbc@social.com, I'd rather follow the blog actor directly and get the content.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 23:21:34 JST Richard MacManus

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     • Tim Chambers
     • photomatt

     @jaz @tchambers @photomatt Just curious, what do you mean by “get the blog feed directly”?