And the threads are coming together.
Month: April 2023
I broke #WordPress #ActivityPub posting the other day, so seeing if it’s fixed now.
Apparently my blog has #ActivityPub. No idea how this works as Iʼve attempted to follow the accounts it suggests, but my instance canʼt find them. Wish we laypeople could use this tech more easily. #WordPress
@jackyan Blogs in a subdirectory require some additional configuration: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/#what%20if%20you%20are%20running%20your%20blog%20in%20a%20subdirectory%3F
Anyway, more to come!
Finally, I seem to have found a way for posts/toots from #WordPress to default to the ‘note’ #PostKind when posted from outside the WP interface. Now to find a way for the plugin to always respect the choice selected in the settings, as it currently doesn’t in this use case.
@sharearea I’m also not a #BlueSky user yet but I do like the account portability aspect. Currently with #Mastodon, if you switch instances you can’t carry over your posts. You can manually copy them over but then you lose all timestamp information. And theoretically I like the Speech -> Reach layer separation, which is tied with account portability, though it remains to be seen how it’ll really work. Elon promised that over at Twitter but didn’t follow through. Mastodon is no better in this aspect so it’s lead some, like myself, to attempt to keep post data in our own databases and push them out to the #fediverse.
Those other ones actually didn’t post as expected on other apps, so tried a modification in the AP code…
Using the #WordPress instance as if it were #Mastodon is very cool.
Testing posting with Mastodon client.
The #WordPress-as-instance concept finally seems to be in a relatively usable state. Posts mostly seem to be…posting. My following requests seem to be registering, at least on the same instance of the user being followed, though not globally (maybe they need time to catch-up). Some of the remaining issues are:
- -Updates are not yet implemented though deletion is.
- -I’d like to edit the links individually, though I may have a solution for this.
- -Some Likes are not reverse-feeding back to the blog.
- -You can’t yet migrate the user to WordPress, though I understand that’s planned. If that was implemented, I’d do it now. I’ve heard of a workaround. If it makes sense, I may try it.