kreynen, 2 months ago

@ntnsndr Did you consider enabling https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ? The number of fediverse posts already coming from WP instances is impressive... and a logical evolution of RSS syndication for blogs. I love the idea that CMS instances are declaring a canonical thread to discuss a URL. I would love to see https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub be an option to enable as part of https://websupport.colorado.edu/article/357-newsletter-bundle for CU sites, but it would require "unstacking" the sites

ntnsndr, 2 months ago

@kreynen Yes! I have been testing it for my lab's podcast at @lookslikenew. For this use case, though, I am looking more for interactive conversations around my social presence. And presently the WP plugin isn't great for ongoing interactions.

Would be great to have this embedded into our drupal sites!

kreynen, 2 months ago

@ntnsndr I've asked the same question to several early adopters of this approach. How does someone know @lookslikenew exists when the Mastodon icon in the footer of https://lookslikenew.net/ links to @medlab and the "syndication" icon links to https://lookslikenew.net/feed/podcast/.

kreynen, 2 months ago

@ntnsndr @lookslikenew @medlab I like the idea of direct federated syndication because it the namespace validates the content source, but I feel like there is a difference between interacting with an official organisation account and following a site and have yet to see a good UX.

ntnsndr, 2 months ago

@kreynen @lookslikenew @medlab Honestly I have no idea. Because @lookslikenew isn't mastodon, it's WordPress. I'm still a bit confused about the ideal usage.