@pfefferle, have you ever considered creating a plugin for #wordpress that implements #hubzillas#owa (Open Web Authentication)? Or have you heard anything in that direction?
And because it’s migrating to WordPress, it will be using #ActivityPub for WordPress to do this.
What’s interesting is that people are already demanding #ATProto so Tumblr will connect to #Bluesky. But from a business perspective, that’s a bad idea unless Automattic plans to run its on firehose—which can be quite expensive.
I’m truly in awe with all the amazing apps that populate the Fediverse. I, myself, use a few: Mastodon, Peertube, WordPress and Bookwyrm. And I’m sometimes tempted to expand my portfolio with a Lemmy, Flipboard or Postmarks account. But I’m concerned the people who enjoy following my activities might get lost in this forest.
Currently, the only way to inform my followers of all my Fediverse activities is to boost a post from my Peertube, WordPress or Bookwyrm to my Mastodon followers (because that’s where I have the largest following). And I sometimes see some of my followers then subscribe to these accounts. But the question remains whether that is a good approach or if, as the number of differentiated and federated services grow, we would need some kind of aggregation tool.
Of course, Mastodon allows you to list up to 4 links in your profile and some use that to link to their other Fediverse accounts. It does provide a way sometimes to verify that you are the owner of those accounts, with a verified link back. But this arbitrary limit of 4 is annoying. And the reverse is not always true. You can’t list multiple Fediverse accounts on your Bookwyrm profile.
What I think we need is FediTree, an application with the sole purpose of listing all the Fediverse accounts of one person (or one group) and allowing people to subscribe to the aggregated feed from all these accounts. Maybe we don’t even need to push to create an aggregated feed. Maybe there is a simple way to subscribe to multiple feeds at once and that would be sufficient.
As you can see, this is not a fully fledged idea. There could be an ActivityPub component to it (AP tech folkx need to look at this. I’m not sure you can create an AP aggregator. Is that allowed by the protocol?). And maybe we could already use the multiple LinkTree alternative services that exists like https://linkstack.org/instances/ for example.
I’m putting this out there to create a conversation. Maybe you are already working on this. Maybe you want to also solve this problem and the multi-account problem. Maybe you have a better idea. Curious to hear your thoughts.
Thanks to all the wonderful people who already follow me here on #Mastodon and interact with my content. I hope to bring some unorganized, not very thought out content to the #Fediverse very soon!
Reviewing #WordPress plugins for use on the websites my team maintains. One candidate is clearly superior in terms of functionality, but we're probably not going to be using it.
Pro tip: If you'd like to sell your plugin to bigger orgs, please do not add excessive branding in wp-admin. No upsells, banners, "rate us on wp.org" and other bullshit.
Our editors shouldn't even need to know your plugin's name. They should simply have new options that blend in and work reliably.
Can anyone using the #ActivityPub plugin for #Wordpress check if they are, too, seeing tags in their blog that they did not use themselves?
The tag list of my blog contains entries that are part of the summary/bio of accounts following my blog - and I feel that this is not really how things should work.
I have tried a couple of times and failed horribly - if I want to make a #WordPress site available through #ActivityPub, so that I can subscribe to all its contents, what do I need to install and set up?
We are a couple of people posting, from different WordPress accounts, but we do not want that to be visible from the ActivityPub side.
I tried the plug-in called wordpress-activitypub and while I can see the website itself (and "follow" it), none of the posts are visible.
I have seen people posting about keeping a journal instead of publicly blogging. I like the idea but hadn't found a good solution. Didn't want paper, and couldn't trust any $company.