Notices by Konstantin Obenland (obenland@mastodon.social)

RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/

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@davew @pfefferle

> it's not a trackback because whole threads can develop.

Could you expand on that? What about whole threads developing prevents it from being a trackback?

I love seeing @evan speak at WordCamp Canada, bringing the spirit of ActivityPub to #WordPress events and advocating for long-form content in the Fediverse!

#wceh #wceh2025

@darnell @pfefferle @davew No need to export it to the Jetpack app, it works the same there!

@dansup I don’t know what went into offering the setting, but in my work on the WordPress ActivityPub plugin it always makes me a little sad when users ask for a way to disable a feature I just spent weeks building 😔

I’ve been following your progress on Stories and how hard it was to get right, so this definitely struck a chord with me.

@silverpill @activitypub.blog Oh, I did not consider that! That's right!

@silverpill @activitypub.blog `implements` is a keyword in PHP, Java, TypeScript, that some quality tools will flag if used as a variable in function signatures. It was fine in our case as a class property, but it's possible others might run into something like that.

Maybe there are alternatives that could be considered? `supports`?

@silverpill @activitypub.blog I think the main motivation for me to add it was to advertise our new support for #RFC9421. Having a proposed standardized way to do that felt neat.

On the receiving end, I'm not sure we'd do any pre-flight requests to understand what an instance implements before acting on it, we'd probably rather stay conservative or do things like double-knock with caching, would be my guess. Might be different if it was something we could grab with a HEAD req.

Small quality of life update in ActivityPub for WordPress 7.0.0: You can now auto-approve likes and boosts from the Fediverse! No more manual approval needed if you moderate new comments.

#WordPress #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Props @epiphyt for the inspiration.

@Gargron RFC 9421 support! It was fun getting ActivityPub for WordPress to work with it

@_elena @pfefferle Yeah, I’d probably start a bit more conservatively, meaning specific, in the terms you want to block. `.social` is indeed quite broad. The mechanism is pretty crude, it has no concept of users or instances—it just matches the terms in the block list with any incoming activity.

I wrote about it on ActivityPub.blog, although reading it back just now, I realized it doesn’t go terribly deep into how it works under the hood.

https://activitypub.blog/2025/05/12/your-site-your-rules-filtering-fediverse-activity/

@mro @activitypub.blog @pfefferle I’m not aware of any. What would that report look like?

@linos @activitypub.blog Depending on the outcome, it might be interesting to merge into the ActivityPub plugin itself. I believe it’s something that was asked for in the context of the Mastodon importer. Using a compatible license and similar file architecture and build mechanism would make it easier to adopt in the future /cc @pfefferle

A frequently requested improvement I want to highlight: The title in the Reactions block is now fully customizable, as it's using a heading block internally.

We'll have more block updates in 6.0.0!

@perksofbeingben Thanks, that's super helpful! Some of these things will be fixed/improved with the next version when most blocks move to using the Interactivity API. https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/archive/refs/heads/try/reply-block-interactivity.zip contains the updated Follow Me, Reactions, and Remote Reply blocks if you want to try them out ahead of release.

ActivityPub 5.9.0 for WordPress just dropped, and I couldn't be more excited!

Check out our brand new Onboarding experience!

#WordPress #ActivityPub

👉 Full changelog: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/#developers

@NickBohle @tchambers @pfefferle None of them are super accurate, I'm afraid. There's overlap between the Active Installation number and the number of sites hosted by a8c. Anything on FediDB, and sites like it, relies on pinging instances, so there's a huge long tail of low-traffic sites that they don't pick up.

Monthly Active Users is probably a more meaningful metric—we're in this to make it a rewarding experience that folks want to come back to!

@epiphyt_en If you like that drop-in you’ll love https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/1648 🙂

@manualdousuario @pfefferle Try disabling dez_custom_posts_arquivos and dez_pesquisar_post_types maybe? Not sure. But they set the post type to post.

@manualdousuario @pfefferle Yeah, these are blog posts. Are there other plugins that filter WP_Query args by any chance? Have you tried disabling all other plugins and purging cache?