Notices by Matt Wiebe (mattwiebe@mastodon.social)

I somehow missed this very cool convo between @pfefferle and @alex about self-hosting your entire fediverse presence using WordPress along with the ActivityPub and Friends plugins. Recommend giving it a watch or listen!
https://dothewoo.io/decentralized-social-networks-wordpress-with-alex-kirk/

@pfefferle @wpcommaven This should be fixed, thanks for the report!

@pfefferle Maybe @rhrwllnrtr was thinking that the ActivityPub actor on the WP site would boost its own posts? Like, back in the day on Twitter, you would maybe go RT a tweet later in the day to get a bit more traction?

One point of strong simplicity for ATProto vs ActivityPub is that with ATProto you don’t have to think about messaging anyone with your posts and updates. Here's some of the minutiae we have to think through. https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/593#discussion_r1922888754

Otherwise, followers might not receive updates to a post.

@Vivaldi @tips This is very cool, glad that @thomasp was able to get it sorted out. Let us know if this is something we could roll into the plugin!

Also @pfefferle and I would be more than happy to chat any time to support your integration.

This will start in just over an hour! https://meet.jit.si/wp-activitypub
https://mattwiebe.blog/2024/11/28/activitypub-for-wordpress-office-hours-day-4/

@OWGF @pfefferle Cool site!

One thing you might want to try is adding the Follow Me or Followers blocks somewhere in your template.

As an example, I have the Follow Me block at the top of my site at https://mattwiebe.blog/

@_elena @pfefferle Awesome! At this point we're not planning to do a Friday session, but I'll be running one at 20:00 UTC on Thursday

And if you can't make that, happy to chat here, on Github, or the .org forums any time :)

@pfefferle @AdamStuartSmith Oh no I can't believe we haven't fixed that yet! 💀

Come join @pfefferle and I for office hours in 7 minutes!
https://mattwiebe.blog/?c=80

All this next week, @pfefferle and I want to hear from you.

Other weeks too, but you'll have our undivided attention.
https://mattwiebe.blog/2024/11/24/support-week-for-activitypub-for-wordpress/

@liaizon @cheeaun @pfefferle @phanpy People icon might work.

Here’s Ivory’s take for comparison:

@cheeaun We’ll have it soon in AP for WordPress - we don’t have a “specific people” option though https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/931

@cheeaun Without making a new icon, we have to choose from something built-in: https://wordpress.github.io/gutenberg/?path=/docs/icons-icon--docs

@pfefferle were there any other good candidates?

@evan You could use https://www.beeper.com or https://texts.com from us! The new version of Beeper will use Texts' local/private architecture, but Beeper will probably work better for now. It supports the majority of your list!

@darnell @pfefferle @wordpressdotcom Would love to hear what stood out as missing! There's a ton to do.

@rez Where did you get that idea? Free sites can opt-in to the fediverse. We do try to upsell you to a domain but you don't need it.

And we contribute to Mastodon with @pfefferle reporting interop bugs 😅

Nearly a year later, this number has grown right around 1K/month, for a fresh total of 11453 sites opted-in to the fediverse on WordPress.com #WordPress #ActivityPub https://mastodon.social/@mattwiebe/111256730476464370

@pfefferle @deadsuperhero @alex +1 very cool!

Getting this warning when I activate it:

`Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Kirki\Field\Repeater::$compiler is deprecated in wp-content/themes/Micron/functions/kirki/kirki-packages/compatibility/src/Field.php on line 305`

@pfefferle @wuebbsy

(going off of Mastodon's inline translation here)

> If I do not want to use this dialog window as a blog (because too big), but simply as a link in the menu or similar, what do I have to do?

You could link to your profile there with a custom link in a menu but that will just direct people back to your site that doesn't have a follow button. We have a request to make a version of the block with *only* the Follow button, which would probably fit into a menu area?