dominik, 7 months ago

@liztai oh look, they're working on the comments thing. Seems to be quite far along, too: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/142

liztai, 7 months ago

@dominik oh goodie. Meanwhile posts are starting to appear again in my dramatea Fediverse account. I guess it was a brief outtage

seanbala, 8 months ago

@liztai

This is annoying but I really try to think of #ActivityPub as a marathon not a sprint. It is an amazing idea that we can integrate AP into already existing tech architectures. As long as #WordPress keeps actively developing it and ironing out the kinks.

I might dust off my WP blog. I have it linked here but have not done much with it. Looking for something to use where I can write more long form. Love #Mastodon but I can be a bit long winded and 500 words can be tight.

volkris, 8 months ago

@seanbala

Hey, an awful lot of Mastodon instances have tweaked the character limit to remove the low bar.

This one, qoto, is effectively unlimited in my experience.

You might want to consider joining one of those instances. After all, that helps signal to Mastodon devs that users want longer form capabilities.

@liztai

lffontenelle, 8 months ago

@liztai something I didn't expect was the "likes" appearing as comments. It's nice in that they appear at all, but at the same time it's a bit clunky

ely_peddler, 8 months ago

@liztai it's a bit annoying that the default account has such a long repetitive name, why didn't they use '@<subdomain>@wordpress.com' or '@blog<subdomain>.wordpress.com'

liztai, 8 months ago

@ely_peddler I find that annoying too, ngl!

dominik, 8 months ago

@liztai for now I like to think of the plugin as a broadcast-only option, a bit like RSS. I've been using it on my blog for a while ( @dominik ) and I'm looking forward to what the developer is doing, now that he can work full-time on it. I'm sure the whole comment thing will be high on the list of priorities.
Until then I reply from this account, which is a bit clunky but (to me) an acceptable compromise for the time being.

n3wjack, 8 months ago

@liztai I use it for my blog too, but find it weird I seem to have 2 fedi accounts now.

ely_peddler, 8 months ago

@n3wjack @liztai that 2 fedi accounts thing is a bit weird, i was going to add a link to follow the blog on mastodon but there is already a link ... i guess a way to make that clear will emerge

n3wjack, 8 months ago

@ely_peddler @liztai I used the WP author profile description to also mention my main masto account, but more control over that would be nice.

volkris, 8 months ago

@n3wjack

It might be explained by the way ActivityPub was designed with content coming from Actors, which explicitly don’t have to be individual humans.

So it’s sort of like your Mastodon presence is one Actor while your blog is a separate Actor.

This kind of thing makes sense when you remember that ActivityPub was designed to be centered around instances and not users. Actors are basically how instances are crediting the sources of what they’re publishing.

@liztai