When I used to blog 10+ years ago I had a killer list of WordPress blogs I followed but as time went on I sort of gave up on the whole blogging thing and forgot about most of them. Now that WP is part of the fediverse I’m curious, what are some of your favorites?
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Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.
WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).
Also note that WordPress.org is run by a non-profit organization called the WordPress Foundation which is a separate entity from Automatic, the for-profit business that runs WordPress.com and provides hosting for their own proprietary version of WordPress that costs significantly more than the vast majority of WordPress hosting platforms that provide the unmodified version of the software with all of the features and none locked out behind a paywall.
While not blogs, im a big fan of Webnovels.
Check out Worm and Twig from wildbow and Practical Guide to Evil by EE. Some great stories and im sure there are even more
Awesome, will do!
From what I can tell, lemmy can’t subscribe to wordpress blogs (?).
This, from what I can tell, is because wordpress is using the User/Person actor and not the Group actor, where lemmy is built on the group actor (community = group).
On the one hand, it would be interesting to see lemmy expand into recognising the User/Person actor in some way, which the devs acknowledge would be quite some work and so not worthwhile at the moment.
On the other hand, I wonder if wordpress has made the right choice here? Given that a blog can generally be a bit more like a community, with multiple authors, and articles with accompanying comments sections, using the Group actor by default or at least as an option in the set up might have made a lot of sense. Of course mastodon is the opposite of lemmy and is built on top of the User/Person actor with minimal support for groups and I’m betting wordpress’s choice was in part driven by that.
Overall though, I feel like the fediverse is quickly heading toward a state where the minimum for any platform is to support both groups and users. I’d suspect that with good support for both, a number of options open up to mould a platform or its underlying API to what a user needs/desires.
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I imagine it means that a Person enabled service allows you to post under your own account as a standalone post, a Group enabled service makes you post under a community or topic instead, mixing with posts from every other participant.
WordPress doing only the former can’t be easily or at all compatible with Lemmy, since Lemmy only supports the latter currentlyReddit is an example of a Group system where posts are associated with a group. This is the model Lemmy uses.
Twitter is an example of a Person system where posts are associated with a person. This is the model Mastodon uses.
Some services can do both; like Kbin with their microblogs and magazines.
Sounds like the Wordpress implementation uses the Person system that Lemmy does not support at the moment, but probably works on Mastodon and Kbin (idk for sure).
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Aw dang that makes sense. Like when you migrate servers on mastodon you can’t import posts. Well at any rate it will be cool to see how it unfolds.
That’s generally how all federation works.
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