this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No mention of Lemmy unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wordpress is an ancient cursed technology, but hey this is kinda cool

[–] dot20 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ancient cursed technology that powers 43% of all websites

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Ah, so blog authors will still need to enable it manually. That's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others.

As a result, it launched version 1.0.0 of the plugin, allowing WordPress blogs to be followed on Mastodon and other fediverse apps.

That means anyone using the hosted version of the open-source WordPress software now has the ability to tie into the fediverse, connecting their blog to federated platforms like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and others.

By using the plugin, the blog itself can also become the user’s profile in the fediverse, instead of having to set up an account directly on a federated app, like Mastodon.

To implement the plugin on Free, Personal, and Premium WordPress.com hosted sites, you simply head into the Discussion section with Settings from the blog’s dashboard and enable the toggle titled “Enter the fediverse.” From there, you’ll make note of your default fediverse name, which references the blog’s domain (e.g. “openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com.”) That profile can then be shared with others so they can follow it on Mastodon or other platforms.

That could expand the fediverse’s numbers, as well, given that Automattic’s own statistics indicate that over 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month on WordPress.com websites.


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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been following my own wordpress site from pixelfed and mastodon for months... Why is this news?

[–] Geert 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the time, however, WordPress.com blogs were not yet supported. But that changes today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder why the plugin was held back from their users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this was posted weeks ago.

[–] Geert 7 points 1 year ago

It's now available on all wordpress.com plans. The article is from the 11th.