Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.
That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?
@christo#Calckey is a fork of #Misskey, which is actually two years older than Mastodon. It started off as @kainoa’s personal project but has become a team endeavour. There’s lots of community input and engagement.
@panos heh, yeah. Mastodon, at least, had a common share intent URL (e.g. instance.tld/share?title=blah or whatever it was) so we went with Mastodon instead of generic. If all Fediverse had the same URL scheme for share intent, it would have been a no brainer for a generalized button!
@kraft@kainoa could we make this work somehow? And get @dansup from Pixelfed on board, and Akkoma and Misskey and whoever else makes software for this magic place?
@kainoa@kraft@dansup So, already a significant part of the fediverse (outside mastodon) supports this! On second thought, I'm not sure if a Share button for articles applies to Pixelfed, since it's a photo sharing platform. But if this is supported by a few more other major platforms, like Lemmy and Akkoma, then this would mean any "Mastodon share" button would practically work as a "Fediverse share" button! This is something we need to standardize. I wonder if @evan has any thoughts on this, if there is a way to achieve a standard on that front.
I found this project https://github.com/Uden-AI/fediverse-share but I think that it would be better if we could somehow have an official (or unofficial, but widely used) universal way of doing it, so that other sites could add Fedi share buttons easily.
That said, I think the most practical option for Automattic would be to ask for your Mastodon API server, let you log in, and then save your key for future likes/shares/whatevs.
And to top off the discussion I'll add an obligatory reference to the #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, where any dev can take the initiative and bring a particular mechanism into standard use..
@evan@panos@kainoa@dansup@kraft@paul Web Intents seems like a great fit for federated interactions from different sites across the Fediverse. Such a shame it was scrapped.
@kraft@panos@smallcircles The Fediverse is a heterogeneous environment, with different communities, tools and ideas interoperating through common communications transfer norms and protocol technologies.
A generalist tool like Wordpress would be undermining its creative capacities and reach should it be confining itself to a subset of the Fediverse.
Given the acceptable barrier of entry here its within Automattic's capabilities and competences to overcome your stated inhibitors.
@kraft Calckey is just cool.It will give anyone who integrates it into their system a huge buy into the new internet; decentralized user-driven and easily customized to meet any niche or standard market .
@liaizon it could be a few different things. What we've added/adding for Mastodon is a "Share to Mastodon" button ( see an example at https://kraft.blog/2023/02/joining-the-student-advisory-board/ ) and we're adding support for our auto-post function where when you publish a blog post, an excerpt, some media, and a link is published on your socials.
For Twitter, we also had things like tweetswarming where we'd suck in a thread and import it into a new post for those who did huge Twitter threads and realized it should be on their site. Also, had the reverse. Write a post and have it auto-posted as a Twitter thread with sensible breakpoints.
Those latter two were really because of the char count limits of Twitter which I don't think would apply to the Fediverse platforms I've checked out so far.
He's working now on integrating it for all WordPress.com sites and making it a better experience.
Right now, it isn't feature-complete enough for me, personally, to say it's ready for folks who aren't early adopters and okay with rough edges.
The sharing and auto-posting is a bit easier to do since there is the existing model of doing it on legacy social media platforms.
On the Tumblr side of the company, same thing. Want to get it to be ActivityPub-compliant. I don't work over there but I imagine that's a pretty big effort and I don't know where it stands off hand.
Long answer but yes. Having a site published using the ActivityPub protocol is on the horizon.
@kraft@matthieu_xyz thank you so much for these tidbits of insider knowledge! do you know any tumblr employees who are currently on the fediverse to follow for potential updates about that mission?
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