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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:49:35 JST Evan Prodromou

   So, who's at Automattic? They need to turn on the ActivityPub plugin for .com users and consider setting up a Mastodon server.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:58:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • James Walker

     @walkah cool!

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     James Walker (walkah@walkah.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:58:18 JST James Walker

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     @evan I agree and it looks like it’s at least on Matt’s mind for Tumblr (see https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1589665959337656322 )
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:58:34 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     • Brad Fitzpatrick

     @drq @bradfitz shoulda woulda coulda

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 21:58:36 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     • Brad Fitzpatrick

     @evan They should have considered OStatus for Wordpress out of the box back at the very beginning of the project, I'd say.

     Same for @bradfitz's Livejournal engine.

     If they did, the history of the Internet might have been completely different.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:20:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Colin Devroe

     @cdevroe So, I'm thinking what they can do this weekend.

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:20:54 JST Colin Devroe

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     @evan and add ActivityPub to Tumblr.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:21:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Simon Phipps

     @webmink I don't think there's time to write new software right now.

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     Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:21:33 JST Simon Phipps

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     @evan
     Matt was asking about integration for Tumblr recently https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1589665959337656322

     We enabled the plugin on blog.opensource.org and so far it's not been a good experience so I suspect Automattic are cautious about just universally deploying.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:44:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Simon Phipps
     • Paul Jacobson

     @pauljacobson @webmink I am happy to consult but also @pfefferle is the best resource

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     Paul Jacobson (pauljacobson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:44:36 JST Paul Jacobson

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     • Simon Phipps

     @webmink

     Ok, that's interesting. That would also be pretty important on a large scale service like WordPress.com (Disclosure: I'm on the WordPress.com support team).

     I don't know what Matt M's thoughts are about implementing ActivityPub. I'd love to see this happen on WordPress.com and even Tumblr, although I can't speak to the technical feasibility of doing this.

     @evan

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     Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:44:46 JST Simon Phipps

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     • Paul Jacobson

     @pauljacobson
     It has failed to make all the accounts available to follow and we've no idea why. So for example my account is not published.

     @evan

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     Paul Jacobson (pauljacobson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 22:44:58 JST Paul Jacobson

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     • Simon Phipps

     @webmink

     What didn't go as planned when you enabled the ActivityPub plugin?

     @evan

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 02:51:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • 0x1C3B00DA

     @0x1C3B00DA yes, but there are a lot of people coming soon.

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     0x1C3B00DA (0x1c3b00da@stereophonic.space)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 02:51:10 JST 0x1C3B00DA

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     @evan I think it'd be better for them to set up a federating instance of wordpress than running a mastodon server. They can show off wordpress and their activitypub plugin and the fediverse can move farther away from mastodon's control
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:11:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     • Brad Fitzpatrick
     • Christopher Schmidt

     @drq @crschmidt @bradfitz RSScloud is pretty good.

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:11:45 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     • Brad Fitzpatrick
     • Christopher Schmidt

     @crschmidt Yeah, I rather meant "devalpoing something akin to Ostatus", some proper federation protocol. But RSS is not a federation protocol (it might be a component of one, but on its own it's insufficient)

     @evan @bradfitz

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     Christopher Schmidt (crschmidt@better.boston)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:11:48 JST Christopher Schmidt

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     • Brad Fitzpatrick

     @drq @evan @bradfitz I... feel like there's a timeline problem here.

     LiveJournal was launched in 1999. Wordpress in 2003.

     Atom, one of the earlier protocols on which OStatus was built, was _created_ by a collaboration between a number of the players of the day in 2003... including LiveJournal.

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     Christopher Schmidt (crschmidt@better.boston)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2022 22:11:48 JST Christopher Schmidt

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     • Brad Fitzpatrick

     @drq @evan @bradfitz Also, LiveJournal added support for cross-server federation of post content (via RSS) in 2002. It added a standardized feed of your social graph in 2004. It created a system for distributed identity (Yadis, later OpenID) in 2005, to allow users to engage on other servers without having to create new accounts.

     Yes, it didn't specifically use a spec collection that launched in 2011. Because it lacked a time machine :p

     https://news.livejournal.com/58000.html // https://lj-dev.livejournal.com/683939.html