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2024-01-12 15:31:16

Great to see the ActivtyPub Plugin continue on a fast development timeline:
The WordPress ActivityPub plugin has been updated to version 2.0. The major feature of the release is better comment federation. Comments are now properly threaded, which makes it much easier to follow and understand threads where people are replying to each other. Comments are now also bidirectionally federated. Creator @pfefferle explains:
“When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”
https://fediversereport.com/wordpress-activitypub-plugin-updates-to-v2-0/
https://fediblogs.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/activtypub-plugin-2-0-launches/
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2023-12-11 19:23:13

Matt Mullenweg at the State of the Word, covers a lot of ground of WordPress developers, including the new ActivityPub plugin that powers all the Fediblogs we note here: 34 minutes in: (This was an answer to a question I submitted asking about the ActivtyPub plugin strategy and it’s potentially becoming a “Cannonical Plugin”)… Matt’s answer below:
“There are two great plugins around the Fediverse or Open Social Web. One is called ActivityPub…ActivityPub has been upgraded to be a Community Plugin….We have launched it and made it available on WordPress.com. And actually that team is going to be working next on bringing it to Tumblr. So Tumblr – we are going to explore it joining Fediverse.
So for it as a Cannonical Plugin? For me Canonical plugins are more for things that we feel like are in the critical path. So being a Community plugins – in the taxonomy of plugins – that means it kinda belongs to everyone, it will never have a pro version or a commercial version and the maintenance can be shared, so it’s open to contributions.
The ActivityPub plugin only has like 5,000 installs so far…so it might be something we consider incorporating or promoting more if it gets more usage….so obviously we need to grow that or just the Fediverse needs to grow more, for it to be something more people need to be interested in.”
https://www.youtube.com/live/1MwT9EEkguE?si=Ikvn5zgXiQgJaRb
https://fediblogs.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/the-activitypub-plugin-for-wordpress-gets-featured-at-state-of-the-word-event/
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