Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)

This is a big milestone for the folks at Automatic and the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) reader just became a great deal more connected and integrated to the open social web:

"The plugin’s ActivityPub API (https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/) now powers its first real production client: the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) Reader. As a WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) user, you can now read, follow, and post across the Fediverse through your… 🧵 1/3

…WordPress blog, with every interaction tied to your blog’s own ActivityPub identity, and it all sits next to the rest of your Reader. At the moment, this works for WordPress.com (🔗 http://wordpress.com/) and Jetpack-connected sites (Jetpack may take a few more days to roll out fully), with self-hosted blogs coming next. Beyond that, the goal is to support any site that speaks the API. The Reader is the first client we’ve built on it, and what we learn here will also feed into the… 🧵 2/3

…broader WordPress reading experience.... If your WordPress.com (🔗 http://wordpress.com/) site has joined the Fediverse (🔗 https://wordpress.com/support/enter-the-fediverse/), it shows up in the Reader’s new Social section (🔗 https://wordpress.com/reader/connections) automatically, next to any Bluesky or Mastodon accounts you’ve connected."

🔗 https://activitypub.blog/?p=15944 🧵 3/3

I think the @surffeeds app in particular, which already has a "Read" mode that works to be more full screen and larger font, etc, could iterate on some of the "River" like features here...

@craignicol It does. Thanks.

…explores is identity portability. With your own domain, your account is no longer tied to a single instance or platform. You can move, switch, evolve, the identity stays yours. Switching with one tap between video, photo or blogging is just cosmetic. But the fediverse allows it natively. That's what's missing today. You don't need a lookalike platform to tell you what kind of content you're allowed to see or share."

🔗 https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116626082671227556 🧵 2/2

This is the way: Bluesky is solving it their way, the Fediverse exprimentiing with things like this:

"Every social network has been given its fediverse clone. Asking people to hold a separate account on each is taking the problem backwards. If the fediverse keeps mirroring the GAFAM, it loses. The point was never to rebuild their world, but to offer something else: one identity across every content. HolosSocial is simply a try. But we can do it.... To clarify: the real shift Holos… 🧵 1/2

@apps This is good news.

@HolosSocial Fully endorse this.

Comparing StartPage to DDG to Kagi Search... Been using DDG as primary web search but exploring others too. Looking for right mix of quality of results and privacy as Google has been failing at both for some time.
Any opinions?

🔗 https://www.startpage.com/en/about-us

@liaizon Did not hit mine either, till this. So sad.

@phillycodehound NICE! Really a must have feature now, and wish more fediverse apps built it in. Some didn't out of securty but Signal showed the way: https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/

@amandalitm None. Just, none.

@mastodonmigration That tracks.

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116625705643420022

Think that Trump's slush fund is audacious because he's stealing BILLIONS? Wait till you learn how Musk is stealing TRILLIONS.

"They’ve figured out how to steal your retirement."

#SpaceX

@tg Cool. I may try pulling some of these into the @surf app....

True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3

…passivity. It's about presence. You're not behind on a river. You're just wherever you are, watching whatever flows past..."

"Your main feed where content naturally flows. Unlike traditional readers, the River doesn't stack items into an ever-growing backlog. Content arrives, you engage with what interests you, and the rest drifts past. The Waterline (🔗 https://www.currentreader.app/docs/waterline) shows you where new content begins."

Why Not Unread Counts? Traditional… 🧵 2/3

…readers show "127 unread articles" and create pressure to clear the queue. The Waterline takes a different approach:
No numbers create no anxiety

You see where "new" begins without quantifying it

Scroll past naturally without feeling obligated

The line fades as you scroll, merging old and new"

🔗 https://www.currentreader.app/ 🧵 3/3

@bradthornborrow @tg Not aKagi user, how does that go from a user experience?