Notices by René Seindal (seindal@mastodon.social), page 3

@pfefferle @jan In the template?

@jan @pfefferle I suspect this has something to do with Mastodon caching, though @pfefferle will know more about this than I do.

When you post on your instance your post is pushed to the instances where you have followers. Those instances cache the post, so they can display it to their users. Your post doesn't go to any instance where there are no followers. It might end on such an instance through intermediaries, because people who follow you share or reply, and they have followers elsewhere.

@jan @pfefferle Having this implemented would help.

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/273

@jan @pfefferle The short story is that your post won't go anywhere unless you have followers on other instances.

Create and account on the 3-4 largest instances, folulow your blog, and re-toot your posts from those accounts. Use the relevant a.gup.pe groups to get them seen and shared.

You need to bootstrap your presence. It won't happen by itself.

@pfefferle @jan Hi Matthias, since you're here. I use the plugin on self-hosted WP (@info), and had comment moderation activated. That lost me some interactions that never showed up on the blog.

I think someone replied to the not yet approved comment in the instance where it was made, but since the comment wasn't on the blog yet, that reply got lost.

It was on an earlier version, though. Might have solved.

@jan @pfefferle you need to make new posts. The plugin doesn't push the old ones.

My Dutch is nonexistent but it appears the latest post on your blog is from December 9th.