Looking at recent resource usage for this blog with #ActivityPub and #WPFriends enabled, and I think it’s time to migrate to a better solution. I’ve been wanting to learn more cloud, so this would give me an excuse.
Tag: WPFriends
Haven’t posted here in a bit. Pulled away a little, to my fault. Really want to work on a few outstanding things, like trying to get a few reply #webmention features working that seemed stuck last time I worked on them, as well as try to get the Following number populated if I can figure out a good method to determine it via the #WPFriends plugin.
With today's upgrade of the WordPress #ActivityPub and #WPFriends plugins, two-way following is now possible between WP and #Fediverse 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 #WPFriends developer would like to implement the redirect functionality of ActivityPub, so at some point I hope to formally migrate this account.
Interestingly enough, I subscribe to my @mikewmerritt@masto.ai account with the #WPFriends plugin and the feed reader does show the whole post, so maybe the issue is on Mastodon’s side not accepting the note as a note.
No Longer Just a Blog
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.
Agreed, and with the recent collaboration of the #WordPress #ActivityPub and #WPFriends plugins, IndieWeb-enabled WP blogs now have two-way following without needing to maintain a separate social account (other than for discovery). So pumped for the possibilities.
The #WPFriends experiment is a mixed bag so far. It now has the ability to ingest #ActivityPub accounts but updates seem to be few and far between except a couple accounts. Might switch back to RSS for the feeds.
Been having fun testing my #IndieWeb setup on my #WordPress 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 #WPFriends 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.