wordpress-activitypub VS awesome-nostr

On a semi related note, WordPress recently acquired an activitypub plugin that does exactly what it sounds like. [0]

So as a corporation you don't really need a mastodon instance to broadcast your stuff. I think most organisations will go this route. (and i suspect threads hopes to piggyback of this for content).

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

There is an ActivityPub Plugin for Wordpress; I believe the author has recently been hired by Auttomatic.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

The Indieweb Crew of course did this first. The principle POSSE – Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere – was coined by them and is the guiding principle behind the Indieweb movement and it is exactly what you’re trying to do. You should click around a little bit in their wiki:

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Most of the time the Indieweblings are doing their own “protocol“ by receiving and reacting to webmentions with rich data structures in Microformats syntax in their HTML. Some parts of Indieweb a rather opinionated about technologies. But a lot of them also interact with different federation services, for example see:

https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub

Finally there's an ActivityPub Plugin for Wordpress, so you might want to check that out.

Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol, which is implemented by /r/Pixelfed, /r/Peertube, Calckey, WordPress, and more.

Its a bittersweet feeling. Blogging was an information dissemination revolution that was made possible by the web. Giving individuals unprecedented ability to self-publish on any niche subject and reaching remote audiences anywhere in the world (the famous long-tail).

The revolution was suppressed. While easy enough to setup by writers (especially if not self-hosted) and accessed by readers, the combination of bookmarks, rss, blog comments and web based search and discovery was ultimately overtaken by the "super-easy" setups offered by the social media walled gardens (social graphs, follows, viral "likes", algorithmic timelines and a race to the short-form bottom).

But not all is lost. The extreme commercialization, privacy concerns and algorithmic oppression of social media has all but ruined it as a platform. People have been thinking and working on somehow reinstating the original promise of the web as a decentralized platform for self-publishing. While not quite yet mainstream, projects such as the Wordpress activitypub plugin [1] suggest we could dream of a new blogosphere blooming.

Here's to the next 20 years!

[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

There are some activitypub apps that support nomadic identity like HubZilla and Streams: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams

Another non-activitypub alternative is nostr, where you identity is a public/private key pair: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

For now the biggest clients are twitter-like clients. A few popular ones are Damus (ios), Nostros (android) or iris (desktop). You can find a bigger list of projects and relays here: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

Nostr seems really cool but regarding nvote it is listed as deprecated in the nostr implementations list and if you look at its commit history it seems pretty dead, with the last commit in Jan, a bunch of them in December and then nothing all the way back to the start of 2022... Also, it is listed as deprecated in part because a user's private key is handled server side, which invalidates a lot of the advantages of nostr.

Maybe you will find something else interesting here: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr check this repo. helps a lot to get an overview to all the implementations 🫂

https://www.nostr.net maintains a list of all known clients. I am a bit partial to astral, though it is resource intensive. You could try coracle, snort, or iris to see if they're more your fancy.

In addition, it should be noted that Damus is not the only product based on nostr. More related products can be found at this link.