Notices by FifiSch (fifisch@social.vivaldi.net)

@manualdousuario @deadsuperhero @news Author handling can be set up in multiple ways. Either there is one blog-wide handle, or individual handles for each author, or both (authors publish under their handles, automated blogwide handle boosts them).

Author profile (profile pic, bio, header image) can be set up as well. Now I see they also support profile aliases used for account migration but I have not tried that yet and would be careful.

My wp profile is @fifisch@fifijezase.online
I'm not sure if I'm federated to mastodon.social instance yet, but my guess is you should be able to see at least the two most recent posts...

@manualdousuario @deadsuperhero @news Under the default settings it creates a new title-less post on my blog. Of course your control of formatting and rich content is limited by the app you are using. I generally prefer to create blogposts in WP admin console and then use my Mastodon app (Phanpy) to handle fediverse replies and interactions or follow others. You can run into problems, but it's genuinely a pretty fun experience.

In future I plan to divide my blog into full-formatted long posts handled in Gutenberg and a feed of shorter toots/boosts sent from Phanpy.

Using self-hosted WP as a personal instance ofc has the same limitation as any personal instance (no access to wider fediverse network until you actively create the connections) but yes. It's fun.

@manualdousuario @deadsuperhero @news Personally I have no idea if it's good enough for professional use, but I'm running a personal AP-enabled WP blog, boosting my posts on this account and I really like the experience so far...

@cwebber Hello, Christine.

"Fediverse" is just a nerdy word that only nerdy people understand just like "Gopher" or "Usenet" used to be back in the day. "ActivityPub" is another nerdy word only nerds understand like "TCP/IP" or "IMAP"

We are still waiting for our "AOL" or "Google" to come and make this thing simple, useful and enjoyable for the usual non-nerdy mortals.

And we really, really want the usual mortals to come.

But when/if they do, we will hate them, chastise them for not knowing enough about federation and maybe even call this day an "Eternal September part II"

...a reference they won't understand, but we will know it's a devastating insult...