I'm a big proponent of RSS feeds. Even run my own #FreshRSS RSS aggregator and reader & have custom #Calibre recipes for archiving #rss for pdf reading.
Mainly talking about websites could easily enter the #Fediverse social media field by turning on the #ActivityPub plugin on their existing #WordPress#blog setups.
Still, many people are letting a great resource pass by them by not utilizing RSS feeds that exist. Nice to see some RSS bridges like these. https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
@paul a great place to start a campaign to get more media organizations to enable ActivityPub would be local public radio stations running WordPress like https://www.cpr.org/. While there are some individuals from Colorado Public Radio active on Mastodon like @RyeBread, it would be great to be able to follow CPR here along with the news I get from @NPR and @coloradosun.
Then again, I wonder if their #WordPress setup would work with the #ActivityPub plugin‽ Or if the plugin has to go through a security audit & be approved before being activated‽
Well, I can always refer them to @pfefferle or @evan (those two are super busy nowadays 😅) if they run into any issues or have questions.
> Or if the plugin has to go through a security audit & be approved before being activated‽
I would expect this to most certainly being the case. Esp. the White House site may be one that is constantly under attack, and have an IT team that is ultra-conservative and wary for any new feature they add. I would be surprised if they added the AP plugin in such early stage of development still. But, who knows..
@paul I think the answer can be found here. I don't have exact numbers, but I'm quite sure that ActivityPub user numbers in total wouldn't make this graph.
@paul yeah, that's just such a tiny number (relatively). Certainly, there are so many benefits to owning your own setup, but I can certainly see why the answer is no.
@jon I don't see why they don't do the bare minimum of letting their WordPress posts be discoverable on the Fediverse, even if they turn off activitypub interactions within their current setup simply so people can follow, discover and share their articles and posts from their federated timelines. They pretty much just have to setup and activate a WordPress owned extension.
@jon some name brand sites are starting. I think it won't be long until more do. It's fairly recent WordPress feature and I'm sure they are starting to promote the feature more to major brand users.
The thing is that adding #ActivityPub to #WordPress is extremely simple. It isn't a new account on a social-network. It is adding value to what you already have. It is so much easier than making your site connect to #Facebook with the various plugins and tools.
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