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kraft, 1 year ago

@chikorita157 FWIW, "finally" isn't accurate. I'm on Pixelfed etc too. When implementing the Mastodon button, we could say Mastodon and know it worked for all Mastodon or generic and 🤷‍♂️. Also, at the time, wasn't really sure if Mastodon would "overtake" (Twitter wasn't the first/only microblog platform but it owned it) and things lik Jabber we supported very early but never found any solid traction.

So yeah, went with Mastodon to get started, support alternative platforms, etc.

That said, the community here is extremely active which does change my calculus approaching this in terms of cost-benefit of the engineering work required by my teams.

kraft, 1 year ago

@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, 1 year ago

@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.

kraft, 1 year ago

@matthieu_xyz @liaizon yes! That's in the works too. We brought on board the gentleman who created https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ to bring ActivityPub support to WordPress sites.

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, 1 year ago

@liaizon @matthieu_xyz I don't offhand. I'm skipping work tomorrow but I'll ask around a bit on Monday when I log back into work.

kraft, 1 year ago

@panos @kainoa @dansup @evan On our side, @jeremy kicked off a discussion about evolving our Share to Mastodon to be more generic:

https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/30675