WordPress.com Enters the Fediverse with ActivityPub Support
WordPress.com added support for ActivityPub today, a decentralized social networking protocol that is now available for across free and paid plans. This allows users to join the fediverse from their WordPress.com sites, and interact with content across federated platforms like Mastodon (and many others) with replies automatically published back to the blog as comments. The latest version of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress allows blogs or sites to have their own ActivityPub profile. (Previously, profiles were limited to individual authors). Automattic acquired the plugin in March 2023, from German developer Matthias Pfefferle who joined the company and has continued to improve it and add new features. Practically speaking, this new ActivityPub support allows fediverse users to follow participating WordPress.com blogs on their chosen service, and comment on the content with those comments synced back to the blog – all without leaving their federated platform. WordPress.com users can activate ActivityPub support under Settings > Discussion. They also have the option to use a custom domain for a shorter, more memorable identifier. Once activated, ActivityPub support is available on new posts only – it is not retroactive. There may also be a delay in short delay for newly published posts appearing on federated…
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