Automattic has big plans for WordPress and ActivityPub. You can follow any blog that has ActivityPub functionality turned on - here's how.

Integration between WordPress and ActivityPub has been a long time coming. It’s existed in several different iterations over the years, but the latest attempt is directly sponsored by Automattic, the owners of WordPress. This article covers some basic how-tos and explains some various quirks in the integration.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    seems like Lemmy might benefit from allowing those types to be followed

    Agreed. I brought it up in the dev AMA, and it’s an issue on GitHub. Devs say it would be a lot of work and isn’t a priority.

    Currently, masto kinda sucks with groups and Lemmy with users. Overall it seems an unfortunately limited state of affairs in need of a clean up.

    And, as I’m sure I am a broken record on, undermines the idea that the fediverse actually exists, yet.

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    All of that being said, I do wonder if there are grounds to question Wordpress going entirely with a Person actor? A blog or Wordpress page isn’t necessarily written by a single author and can be closer to an RSS feed of multiples people’s work right? A Group actor might have actually made more sense then …?

    If true, I’d guess they went with a Person actor for mastodon compatibility, which if true, would be a little saddening.