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Top 6 PHP Mastodon Projects
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What do you mean? WordPress already supports ActivityPub through their plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
I follow a few blogs on Mastodon just fine (for example John Carlos Baez's Azimuth, https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/), it's just like an RSS reader in your timeline.
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fediembedi
Wordpress plugin to display your Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, or PeerTube timeline in widget or shortcode
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caterpillar
Caterpillar Proxy - The simple web debugging proxy (formerly, php-httpproxy) (by gnh1201)
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kirby-posse
A Kirby plugin to automatically syndicate (cross-post) your newly posted content to Mastodon and Bluesky.
That just describes any social network cold-start problem. If you want to solve that it needs to be really easy for regular users to join and contribute.
Example: Click "Join Nostr" on the nostr.com landing page and the first thing you see is "private" and "public" keys. Click next, you land on 4 example nostr clients. One is broken, the other one is filled with japanese content, the other one is a GitHub repository etc.
It's a cool project from a technical pov as the system is quite simple but you can not expect regular content to start popping up if the experience is only tailored towards motivated tech nerds.
I tried to improve that by making it easy to syndicate the content of Kirby (A blogging framework) to Nostr (https://github.com/dewey/kirby-posse/pull/9) but ran into many issues with how the various clients support and show images and lost interest along the way.
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mastodon-rss
A Wordpress widget to import the rss feed from a Mastodon account and format it correctly so it can be displayed in Wordpress.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Mastodon projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | wordpress-activitypub | 570 |
| 2 | social | 500 |
| 3 | fediembedi | 27 |
| 4 | caterpillar | 26 |
| 5 | kirby-posse | 18 |
| 6 | mastodon-rss | 4 |
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