With today's upgrade of the WordPress and plugins, two-way following is now possible between WP and accounts. I'm going to be slowly moving my activity to the blog account, which you can find here on Mastodon at @mikewmerritt@dymersion.com. I'll keep this account open for now and will be boosting here as I remember to do so.

The developer would like to implement the redirect functionality of ActivityPub, so at some point I hope to formally migrate this account.

I mentioned last week that I’ve installed the SemPress theme to take advantage of IndieWeb features like microformat labeling to enable parsing in webmentions, a kind of new-era trackback but better. Well, it’s more than just that. As I’m sure most people reading this are aware, there’s been a lot of activity in the world of social media in the past month or so. A new owner at Twitter, people moving to different platforms, and Elon Musk having a bit of a meltdown. All of this has gotten me thinking about the future of my own online presence and has encouraged me to look into revving this blog back up and using it as a hub for my own content of all types.

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Been having fun testing my setup on my blog. So far can post from it to Mastodon but not Twitter and can reply to posts on both.

I'm also experimenting with the plugin, trying to see if it can replicate feed features to some degree. I've successfully added a Reply button to incoming feed entries, which is not OOB. It works just okay for now. Have to see if the reply source can be more seamlessly integrated to generate a u-in-reply-to.