Notices by André Menrath (linos@graz.social)

There now is a poll plugin for #WordPress that has full #Fediverse support.

Since a few minutes it is finally officially available on WordPress.org.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/polls-for-activitypub/

Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for support the initial development of this piece of software. And thanks to @pfefferle for his ongoing work on the WordPress ActivityPub plugin @activitypub.blog !

I am happy to receive reviews and am ready to fix stuff in case issues should arise!

@silverpill And use a multi-type then, too! :) I am becomming a fan of those more and more.

@tchambers Things that also come 2026 thanks to #NLnet:

#WordPress users will be able to create polls for the Fediverse.

WordPress in combination with #GatherPress will offer federated RSVP for events.

Interoperability of Events will improve, e.g. Mobilizon will be able to receive events from other applications.

#Lauti, an event management tool for medium sized communities, will join the Fediverse.

Does @peertube alreay support or has plans to support statistics which parts of a video got watched most? Of course via ActivityPub extensions. Could be either private as a reflection for the editor or public. #PeerTube #ActivityPub

@magikh @_elena Yep. The cached remote resources can be just too much.

@_elena @magikh In my optinion hosting Lemmy or similar makes the most sense, when you want to host the channels yourself, but for participating, an account probably enough at most times.

@andypiper As you wrote a FEP for quoting, I really wonder what you think: isn't it that linking, embedding and quoting have quite something in common, so shouldn't their implementations be derivatives from each other?

@silverpill @liaizon @bonfire @smallcircles @evan @peertube

@smallcircles @andypiper @silverpill @liaizon @bonfire @evan @peertube

I wonder if Mastodon quotes aren't technically related more to embeds than "actual quotes". Cause what a Mastodon quote is doing is always referring to the whole quoted object (Note) without specifying where (and of course the consent, which is magnificent!). So maybe an embed could just be an extended Mastodon-quote where it is specified where it is in the content, e.g. via just using <embed> tags.

"actual quotes": being able to quote parts of something, putting it into context (where in content) and being referring to the whole origin source.

I see that we should continue this discussion on socialhub/the FEPs discussion places.

@silverpill Linking is good, I wonder if this can be fine tuned, to say whether to embed that target object or not. I guess it's maybe kind of related to quoting. I'll have to check quote implementations.

@activitypub.blog This project is rather small, but I realised that it would be quite too much to carry it out properly without funding.

🎉 Development for Mastodon compatible #ActivityPub polls in #WordPress is starting. This project is receiving funding from the latest round of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. #ngi0 #NLnet

https://codeberg.org/linos/wordpress-polls-for-activitypub

@activitypub.blog

@activitypub.blog Looks awesome. I love to see how it's finally time that those issues can get their attention. The virtual actor model, and the following/follows backed have indeed caused me some tough times. I totally agree with what you have outlined.

Feel free to tag me once you start working on this and want to hear my opinion, or want it reviewed, seems I will likely also have funding again soon to maintain and improve the Event-Bridge Plugin, as well as some stuff related in the ActivityPub plugin, like supporting this developments from a third parties/communities point of view!

@pfefferle What are the current issues?

@organicmaps @forgejo Gratulations! I hope you won't have too much troubles to migrate your CI Actions too! I took me quite sometime to get this too!

@pfefferle @evan @trwnh @johnonolan

As I <remember> the specs, they state that ID's may be omitted if it is sufficient for an object to exist that is embedded in a parent object that has an ID.

Edit: See https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#obj-id

But then you probably should set it to null.

A question to my fellow #Fediverse developers: how do you handle if something you have announced changes? For example if gets updated, it gets deleted etc. Do you propagate an update to the followers, so that their targets instances, who might only know about that object because of your announce get informed?

@Bigou @evan
Some applications (e.g., #Mobilizon ) use frameworks that by default mark wildcard certs as not secure.

And maybe there are more, and you will waste hours until you find out it's not your code.

@mobilizon

Do not try setting up an #ActivityPub server using a #wildcard SSL/TLS certificate.

@pfefferle @blog So if you don't see a blocker in keeping the name as it is, I would respond and point out that ActivityPub is not a companies name, or the name of a commercial product but a W3C protocol. I think it could be possible that reviewer never heard the term before.

@evan (FYI)

Hallo #Freiburg! Wir sine zwei Fernwandernde, welche morgen ihr Ziel in Freiburg erreichen und dort noch auf der Suche nach einer Couch für eine Nacht wären! Schafft es das Fediverse uns einen Host zu vermitteln? Gerne teilen!