Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub

Re:Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub by lukewrites on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:49PM (#37850074)

I agree. Wordpress powers something like 40% of all websites. 40% of the web having a low friction way of publishing to the fediverse is a big deal. Sure, this doesn't mean that almost half the web is suddenly "on the fediverse"; the more ad-dependent a site is, the less likely it seems that they'll enable this unless they can do so in a way that brings users to them.

I want to be able to have a fediverse feed that's as much RSS feed as news feed, but that's my preference. I'm really glad WP is making it easy for folks to use ActivityPub.

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Re:Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub by xnx on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:19PM (#37850380)

Corporate publishers are probably feeling the burn of the enshittifcation of Medium and then Twitter, and annoyance from the Instagram ad volume and Threads uncertainty. I bet they would welcome an something more boring like a Wordpress blog that was totally under their control. The critical part that's missing is an easy way for end users to subscribe (e.g. a popular/easy RSS/Atom/feed reader standalone product or feature).

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