ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has officially been released! 🎉
One of the biggest additions is the ability to set up blog-wide "catch-all" accounts, which is a fantastic new feature. It provides more flexibility compared to the previous account setup.
In terms of adoption, the plugin has already been installed on an impressive 42,831 WordPress blogs! It's amazing to witness how ActivityPub for WordPress is gaining popularity day by day.
But here's the news that truly gets me pumped up: ActivityPub support for Wordpress.com (also known as "Dotcom") is on its way! This means millions of WordPress.com users are going to join the Fediverse. Just imagine the possibilities! Currently, there are around 70 million new posts and 77 million new comments made on WordPress.com each month. The addition of ActivityPub will open up the Fediverse to a whole new level!
While Threads joining the Fediverse has sparked a lot of discussion, I believe the inclusion of WordPress (both self-hosted and Dotcom variants) could have an even more significant impact. It's an exciting time indeed! 😄
Either you send too much in a post, or too little. And it all hinges on how the receiving end renders it.
I don’t think anyone should worry about that. Make and send posts based on what you want to say, not how other software will render it. Its up to the software to fix their shortcomings. We’ve seen a huge influx of Link/Page posts from threadiverse users and now we’ll see an influx of Article posts from wordpress users. This is what the fediverse is supposed to be and projects that actually want to be part of the fediverse have to be able to render it all nicely. (This doesn’t mean first-class support for every type. Changing how you render a few fields like title, content, author, summary by post type isn’t a huge ask).