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wordpress-activitypub
- wordpress-activitypub 2.0.0
- ActivityPub 1.0.0 – WordPress Plugin
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The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
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/
- Looking for an instance that allows longer Blog-style posts when needed
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A Look at Bluesky
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
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Which platform for occasional blog posts?
Finally there's an ActivityPub Plugin for Wordpress, so you might want to check that out.
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AOC threatens to leave Twitter after Elon Musk promotes ‘disgusting’ account impersonating her
Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol, which is implemented by /r/Pixelfed, /r/Peertube, Calckey, WordPress, and more.
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Twenty Years of Blogging
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/
- ActivityPub – WordPress Plugin
- I have been using "personaljournal" which is based on "writefreely" but PJ does not seem to allow comments on blog posts... is there a fediverse blog system allowing comments?
gotosocial
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Official Lemmy instance to migrate off reddit
Honestly if a server allows free login, then it shouldn't matter how the donations are spent, the admins are probably at a loss anyway. I've seen large phpBB forums run on donations for a long time, so maybe federated socials can work too. One unfortunate thing I've noticed from running a single-user GoToSocial instance is that it consumes a lot of storage, I'm getting 8Gb just from myself and the instances I follow. This could be brought down with more agressive cache settings, but it still shows that people using these new social media still have habits from Twitter or Reddit, where bandwidth and storage is paid for by advertisers, and don't realize how many gigabytes they're casually moving around. I really hope this won't be the downfall of the Fediverse.
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ActivityPub domains and interactions across different instances on the fediverse
I'll be starting my own instance of the fediverse, something for myself and family only. I'll start with gotosocial, and add a reddit like alternative too, but haven't decided between kbin or lemmy yet. Maybe I'll add pixelfed down the line.
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A server to start in the fediverse.
gotosocial is easy to install and easy to use, but you need 3rd party apps on your phone or computers to use it properly. Another option is snac2, you need to compile it manually but it is easy to use once compiled. Its web interface is kinda outdated, but it is usable as it is. Both are very light on resources, and can be installed on $4 vps.
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I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost
[2] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
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We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
GotoSocial would be another option (also in Go with SQLite backend.) Although you'll need a front-end because it doesn't ship with one.
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
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Running own Instance
Not sure if you only want Mastodon. If not, I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a CPX11 Hetzner instance which costs 5.18 euros/month. Am hosting a few other things, but CX11 instance for 4.51 euros/month will also do well.
- Can I use Mastodon as the backend for the social features in my app?
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How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
The main one is how they handle keys[1] which broke federation with Pleroma for a while. There's also some weirdness with their HTTP signing which breaks Honk follow requests but I'm still tracking that down.
[1] https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/11...
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Mastadon apps feature comparison
Compare mastodon, pleroma, misskey, friendica, gotosocial, pixelfed, peertube (https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial) and their main forks.
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I'll play: creating my own server
As u/riffic mentioned, Mastodon is quite heavy. But since mastodon follows (mostly) standard protocols, you can host an alternative. I’m really interested in Gotosocial, which is written in Go so it can run on a cheaper VPS. But it doesn’t seem to support all features (which will be a common thing with alternatives).
What are some alternatives?
instances - Mastodon instances list
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
atproto - Social networking technology created by Bluesky
hometown - A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.
fediverse-embeds-wordpress-plugin - Embed fediverse posts on your WordPress site.
GuideToMastodon - An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
chatgpt-shell - ChatGPT and DALL-E Emacs shells + Org babel 🦄 + a shell maker for other providers
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
corpus-activity-streams - alternative docs for ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
awesome-nostr - nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things