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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 14:07:03 JST Tim Chambers

   This is a big milestone for the folks at Automatic and the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) reader just became a great deal more connected and integrated to the open social web:
   
   "The plugin’s ActivityPub API (https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/) now powers its first real production client: the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) Reader. As a WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) user, you can now read, follow, and post across the Fediverse through your… 🧵 1/3

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 14:22:20 JST Tim Chambers

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     Also a big deal:

     "For a long time, the plugin has spoken the server-to-server half of ActivityPub fluently, which is how your posts reach Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the rest. With 8.1.0, the plugin now also exposes an ActivityPub API, an implementation of the Client-to-Server (C2S) half of the protocol. In plain language: third-party Fediverse apps can now create, edit, and delete posts on your blog directly, the same way they would on a Mastodon account."