Wordpress is an ancient cursed technology, but hey this is kinda cool
Ancient cursed technology that powers 43% of all websites
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others.
As a result, it launched version 1.0.0 of the plugin, allowing WordPress blogs to be followed on Mastodon and other fediverse apps.
That means anyone using the hosted version of the open-source WordPress software now has the ability to tie into the fediverse, connecting their blog to federated platforms like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and others.
By using the plugin, the blog itself can also become the user’s profile in the fediverse, instead of having to set up an account directly on a federated app, like Mastodon.
To implement the plugin on Free, Personal, and Premium WordPress.com hosted sites, you simply head into the Discussion section with Settings from the blog’s dashboard and enable the toggle titled “Enter the fediverse.” From there, you’ll make note of your default fediverse name, which references the blog’s domain (e.g. “openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com.”) That profile can then be shared with others so they can follow it on Mastodon or other platforms.
That could expand the fediverse’s numbers, as well, given that Automattic’s own statistics indicate that over 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month on WordPress.com websites.
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Fuck WordPress.com. They intentionally lead people to conflate the free and open-source software WordPress (WordPress.org) and their own proprietary and overpriced version.
You can’t install plugins on their platform until you pay them $40/mo ($25/mo if you pay annually). That’s one of the most expensive WordPress hosting out there and it’s a completely different proprietary version with less access and control than you’d find elsewhere for far less.
Yeah, this was posted weeks ago.
It’s now available on all wordpress.com plans. The article is from the 11th.
No mention of Lemmy unfortunately
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It should work, I was more commenting on another missed opportunity to bring the platform name to the mainstream audience.
Mastodon is more or less well-known nowadays thanks to articles talking about it for years, it would be nice to have the same for Lemmy
The only way to know for sure is to test. I found I could subscribe to peertube channels using lemmy, but that wasn’t intended and just a happy side effect of the common activitypub protocol.
I recall seeing new videos and being able to comment but not be able to create new posts that would federate since that wouldn’t make a lot of sense.
Depends on if they expose Person actors or Group actors. (so, probably not considering it doesn’t make much sense to consider a blog as a Group)
In theory a blog could xpost to a Lemmy community via mentioning it but I have no idea if Wordpress does mentions like that.
In WordPress, one blog can have many authors, so it does make sense to consider it a group
The comments in !technology@lemmy.world mention that !pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com works on Lemmy
not on my mobile client unfortunately
Ah, so blog authors will still need to enable it manually. That’s a shame.
