Notices by Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social), page 2

@pfefferle @cdevroe@cdevroe.com @colin

I can confirm that if I have the blog profile on, but ActivityPub off for a specific user, the blog profile does not post. :(

Should I file this as a bug? I'm not sure that it is a bug though. I don't know what people's expectation would be in this circumstance. My guess is that they would expect it to work the way it is working now.

@pfefferle @cdevroe@cdevroe.com I see. My goal is to have @colin be MY account. But, if I turn my author profile off it doesn't post as me. So I have to keep both on. But I don't want @cdevroe@cdevroe.com to exist.

By the way, if I'm asking these questions in the wrong spot, please let me know. I don't want to bother you.

@pfefferle @cdevroe@cdevroe.com Shouldn't it publish to both? Or did I mess it up! (And, it only did one of them).

@pfefferle @colin The last few posts never made it to Mastodon. And I'm not sure why. I'm just not sure how to debug the setup to make sure everything is correct.

@pfefferle According to BrowserPub my blog has a few posts in the outbox that haven't made it to @colin - Anything I can do?

https://browser.pub/https://cdevroe.com/@colin

@pfefferle breaks are good. Enjoy!

@pfefferle @alexstandiford I understand the purpose of the crossbooster but I think it would be unneeded if the WP-ActivityPub-powered accound became a "real" AP account w/ follow feed + migrations. Because then I wouldn't need an account on a Mastodon instance at all.

@alexstandiford I’ll defer to @pfefferle but I think progress is being made on migrating followers. But I am unsure about the feed part... I'm curious too.

I just installed the ActivityPub plugin on my site and I've been doing some experimenting. It is very exciting. A bit messy. And an interesting time. I'm really looking forward to seeing progress being made here and may try to contribute some.

@pfefferle @ton 😅 I totally get that! It is just how WordPress "handles" authors more broadly that makes a single user site get muddy this way. But it is usable!

@ton @pfefferle Would you then need to create profile metadata for a category in WordPress?

@ton @pfefferle Oh this is interesting... what about not worrying about categories at all... and just add the “AP account" as metadata on the post?

So, in the ActivityPub plugin you'd create AP "accounts” - and they could be associated to authors or not. But they could also be selectable in the editor to associate a post to?

(Obviously, this would need to be written and described much more clearly, but I would love something like this)

@pfefferle No one replied, unfortunately. I should have planned something sooner and gotten the word out sooner. But, fortunately I had over a dozen team members from NerdPress that were willing to listen to my enthusiastic description of ActivityPub and how the plugin works with WordPress! :)

@pfefferle @notiz.blog @pfefferle@notiz.blog Totally! This is great. I would have too, but my WordPress author is cdevroe rather than colin. And changing it isn't trivial.

@pfefferle I think how the settings are makes sense. Because each “account” requires a profile, I think tying them to authors in WordPress is the best approach. I had thought about tying them to categories - but that doesn't make sense.

It would be up to me to figure out how best to display, or not display, the author information on my site - while the content is federated under each author.

@pfefferle Sorry. First, I only had blog profile. Then, I wanted additional accounts - so I turned author profiles on. However, that gets weird because my main author is me but the username is cdevroe. And I didn't want that. So I disabled ActivityPub on my main author and created an additional author.

I'm still unsure if this is a good idea. Because then posts get split between authors (which makes sense). But it may not make sense for a single person website? Again, I'm still learning!

@pfefferle These were my guesses as to the reasons! Thank you for letting me know. When I looked at the diff to see how you implemented the fix, I was surprised is all. TY! And TY for taking care of that very simple improvement so quickly!

Btw, I _think_ I fixed my site by turning off my author profile, enabling the blog profile at @colin , and turning ON the @stupid profile. I'm still learning. I just didn't want my username to be cdevroe.

@pfefferle I have a question re: the ActivityPub plugin dev workflow. Do you commit minified files to the repository? If so, why?

@tchambers This might help some

https://social.vivaldi.net/directory

cc @Vivaldi

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I’d love to have an #ActivityPub chat at #WCUS today, perhaps at lunchtime? If anyone is interested let me know. And please spread the word! @pfefferle