Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 16:11:42 JST Matthias Pfefferle

   • Dave Winer ☕️

   RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-5-0-follow-the-feed-quote-the-lead/

   @davew we just released our Mastodon to RSS bridge. If you are in WordPress.com and follow someone on the #fediverse we add their RSS feed to the WordPress.com Reader.

   • Embed this notice
     Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 16:32:00 JST Dave Winer ☕️

     in reply to

     @pfefferle — that sounds intriguing, not sure I understand.

     Can I get an RSS feed from an ActivityPub account?

     For example, my mastodon.social account…

     https://mastodon.social/@davew

     Is that accessible through RSS?

   • Embed this notice
     Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 18:25:32 JST Dave Winer ☕️

     in reply to

     • shadowwwind

     @shadowwwind

     Yes I know all about that. I’m asking a specific question about the work that Matthias announced earlier.

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 18:25:32 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Dave Winer ☕️
     • shadowwwind

     @davew @shadowwwind we check the profile URL for the rel-alternate header. this works for most of the current platforms.

   • Embed this notice
     shadowwwind (shadowwwind@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 18:25:37 JST shadowwwind

     in reply to

     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @davew just add a .RSS to your profile linke like this

     https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss

     Only public posts tho I believe

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 18:33:48 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @davew sure `https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss`

   • Embed this notice
     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 18:58:43 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

     in reply to

     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @pfefferle @davew This is awesome! I am excited about this! For now, is this web only or do you have plans to export this to the #WordPress app‽ Also, if someone runs multiple blogs, will all of their follows appear in the reader‽

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:09:34 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @darnell @davew there are no plans for the WordPress App yet.

     Regarding the Reader: Yes, all feeds of all blogs will end up in the reader.

   • Embed this notice
     Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:28:55 JST Dave Winer ☕️

     in reply to

     @pfefferle

     Yes, I know about that, not sure what your new feature does, is it only for connecting with WP’s feed reader?

   • Embed this notice
     Nick Bohle 🇪🇺 (nickbohle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:35:48 JST Nick Bohle 🇪🇺

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:

     @pfefferle @darnell

     I like it, but will not use it. This will trigger the German ANTI wp.com / Automattic front.

     What can you tell them, not deleting the plug-in because of possible connections to JetPack and WordPress.com.

     And again, thank you for your great work.

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:56:44 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @davew yes, for now. but it can be generalized to be able to connect any kind of feed reader.

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 19:58:20 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Nick Bohle 🇪🇺

     @NickBohle @darnell there is no need to be triggered in any way, because the ActivityPub plugin will not force you to install Jetpack or make any connections itself.

     This is a simple: If you are on DotCom or if you already use Jetpack, you can use this feature. Otherwise you have to wait until we have the built in reader ready :)

   • Embed this notice
     Nick Bohle 🇪🇺 (nickbohle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 20:29:04 JST Nick Bohle 🇪🇺

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:

     @pfefferle @darnell

     well, it does not trigger me, but does the plug-in send requests to jetpack/wp.com to check if the user is known? and if, what does Automattic do with the requests?

     Sorry for asking, but I'm afraid that the plug-in might be cancelled due to lack of transparency.

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 20:35:56 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Nick Bohle 🇪🇺

     @NickBohle @darnell The ActivityPub plugin simply checks if Jetpack is installed on your blog. If not, it will simply do nothing ☺️

     No lookups, no pings, just a local check for another plugin.

     https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/5a4241a72bc6d6932867103c748e5297bcbde984/integration/load.php#L65

   • Embed this notice
     Konstantin Obenland (obenland@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 21:28:18 JST Konstantin Obenland

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Dave Winer ☕️

     @darnell @pfefferle @davew No need to export it to the Jetpack app, it works the same there!

   • Embed this notice
     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 21:28:18 JST Matthias Pfefferle

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Dave Winer ☕️
     • Konstantin Obenland

     @obenland @darnell @davew Ah, it is about the reader? I thought about quoting :)

   • Embed this notice
     Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 22:07:49 JST Dave Winer ☕️

     in reply to

     • Darnell Clayton :verified:
     • Konstantin Obenland

     @pfefferle @obenland @darnell

     i'm really confused, but that's nothing new. ;-)

     i just figured since i was cc'd on the announcement and it pertained to RSS that there would be a feed in there somewhere i could brag about.

     I do most of my feed reading in FeedLand, of course.