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deadsuperhero

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Absolutely ridiculous. The clump of brain cells behind Brands Town, Spectra Video, We Distribute, and VidCommons. Former CM @ Diaspora. I love Ween, adventure games, and the Fediverse.

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atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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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! 😄

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/wordpress-blogs-can-now-be-followed-in-the-fediverse-including-mastodon/

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deadsuperhero,
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@atomicpoet It's honestly really exciting times. I just got @news set up, and it seems to work great.

The big challenge, I think, is finding a happy medium for how different platforms display articles. Mastodon just renders a link for the Article type, whereas Firefish and Friendica try to render the whole thing. There are options to change what WordPress AP sends out (post excerpts with links, full articles, custom templates) but I think it falls short for any AP-powered platform geared towards reading full articles.

Either you send too much in a post, or too little. And it all hinges on how the receiving end renders it.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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is actually turning into quite the interesting phenomenon, almost like the social media version of Doom. It's fascinating to see how people are pushing the boundaries and making it work on all sorts of devices!

Just recently, there's been a Mastodon client developed specifically for Apple II, and surprisingly, it's quite impressive. Almost all the features you'd expect on Mastodon are there; from viewing timelines and receiving notifications to even creating content warnings. The only things missing at the moment are bookmarks and polls, but I have a feeling they'll be added in no time. It's genuinely an impressive endeavor!

Who knows what will come next? I'm personally excited to see if someone manages to make Mastodon work on a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4A Ti-84 calculator. Now that would be something truly remarkable! 😉

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/binary-release-of-mastodon-for-the-apple-c/

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deadsuperhero,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews I dunno if you had the chance to read about all of the retro clients, but there's some really amazing work being done.

https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/mastodon-retro-clients/

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