We just released version 2.0.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress (WordPress.com release is planned for tomorrow).
Main feature: Full bedirectional/threaded comment federation 🎉
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.0.0
Thanks #Automattic @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel and @janboddez for your contributions
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Release 2.0.0 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
What's Changed Normalize attributes that can have mixed value types by @pfefferle in #586 some phpcs fixes by @pfefferle in #590 WebFinger: Add support for URLs by @pfefferle in #594 Remove deprec...GitHub
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Dentaku (Thomas Renger)
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •spla :senyera: :vim:
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •XAG.info 🖥📱💻⚙️
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •🆒 Great – thanx for Your Work 🎁
@pfefferle @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel @janboddez
Mitex Leo
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Laurens Hof
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •congratulations!
Would you mind giving an example of what is bidirectional comments means in this case? Does that mean that originate from the wordpress blog itself?
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof if 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!
(Limitation: you have to have an account on the blog)
alien
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •That is wonderful, so you don't need an extra ActivityPub account to reply to your blog post's comment.
I bet it will be easier to track the comment with this feature.
But I wonder for visitor that do not have ActivityPub account how it will handled?
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •@aku @laurenshof
> That is wonderful, so you don't need an extra ActivityPub account to reply to your blog post's comment.
exactly!
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •@aku @laurenshof
> But I wonder for blog visitor that do not have ActivityPub account how it will handled?
That's a tricky one, because they have no real profile... we can try to give them a temporary, but we have to get sure that we do not run into a GDPR issue here.
alien
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •I think the default WP comment also retains some information about the visitor who commented on the blog, so it should be no problem, right?
Or, to make everything easier, you have to make an announcement on the blog that if the visitor wants to comment, they must have an ActivityPub account. So you don't need to care about the visitor information at all
The only problem now is the old comments on the blog, it is the only thing that hinders me from installing to old blog
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •@aku @laurenshof
> Or, to make everything easier, you have to make an announcement on the blog that if the visitor wants to comment, they must have an ActivityPub account. So you don't need to care about the visitor information at all
that's not that easy, because even if they have a fediverse account, I can not post something in favour of someone from the blog, so I have to direct them to there platform to comment and that might be a bad UX.
alien
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •aha, I thought you already implemented the "remote comment" like on the Mastodon.
Now I am really curious and want to test it myself on my test blog.
But thank you for your work, it progressed a lot from the last time I tested the plugin.
:goodjob:
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •oh nice! this is also working for post URLs, I thought this is limited to profiles!
thanks for mentioning it, this should be a really nice and simple extension!
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to alien • • •@aku @laurenshof
> I think the default WP comment also retains some information about the visitor who commented on the blog, so it should be no problem, right?
Yes, but I have to make sure that the user can either opt-in/opt-out from federation or at least create the awareness that all comments will be federated... otherwise I have a GDPR problem...
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof See:
* https://pfefferle.org/federated-comments/
* https://mastodon.social/@matthias@pfefferle.org/111578867512598637
Matthias Pfefferle
2023-12-14 12:53:21
Videospielgeschichten 🕹️
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Beko Pharm
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Björn Brembs
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •I have a question: I have a WP blog with the plug-in:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/
Somehow, I managed to create two Mastodon users that post different posts:
@bjoern
@brembs@bjoern.brembs.net
How can I adjust it such that these posts all shw up under this account instead? The way I understand it, it is not possible? If so then what would be the use case for the plug-in?
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Björn Brembs • • •@brembs @bjoern @brembs@bjoern.brembs.net these are technically two accounts, so you can try to abandon one and send your followers to the other, but there is no way to use one ID for Mastodon and WordPress (if that is the question).
The Use-Case of the plugin: You do not have to have a Mastodon account to federate your posts and all reactions to your posts will be federated back to your blogs comment section. If this is not what you searched for, maybe you want to have a look at a cross-posting plugin instead?
Björn Brembs
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Thanks, that's what I thought, I just wasn't sure I had understood it properly. I think I'll unistall the plug-in again and search for one that simply posts the links to Mastodon for me.
I'm also considering setting up my own instance as a subdomain and then migrate there from here, but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle.
Thanks again!
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Björn Brembs • • •Luca Sironi
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •i think all wordpress blog should have this enabled by default, as for the blogger perspective is just a way to be more connected.
Bloggers that got interested in fediverse, will always end up having multiple accounts, a microblogging one, one for sharing pictures, one for lemmy forums...
Sven
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Dan York
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Excellent news! Thank you for all the work on this.
Are the Blocks new? (Follow me on Fediverse, and Fediverse Followers) Those are a nice addition.
If they have been there before, then I guess I just missed them.
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Dan York • • •Dan York
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Trantion
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Trantion • • •@trantion this seem to be an issue with Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7832
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues?q=503+Remote+SSL+certificate+could+not+be+verified
Innapropriate 503 message error when search someone in unknowned instance · Issue #7832 · mastodon/mastodon
GitHub🏳️ Ben Soule :coffefied:
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Mike Taylor 🦕
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •mgaans
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •smeg
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •I installed the old version on my self-hosted yesterday, waited a bit, published a new post, waited a bit, and still can't find my blog searching for the Mastodon user URL.
Going to try the troubleshooting steps today surrounding subdirectories 🤷♂️
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to smeg • • •Mitex Leo
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Mitex Leo • • •Mitex Leo
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Mitex Leo • • •Mitex Leo (@mitexleo@infosec.exchange)
Infosec ExchangeMatthias Pfefferle
in reply to Mitex Leo • • •Mitex Leo
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •... Didn't receive any notification... Sorry for this. Maybe we should automatically add the handle on comment like Mastodon?
Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Mitex Leo • • •@mitexleo @techbites no problem... the missing notification is a known issue and we are working on that.
happy federated commenting 😀
André Menrath
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •First above all: Congratulations!!!
I think one thing might be missing: Being able to reply on a comment from WordPress that is not known to your instance already.
My instance does not know of the reply "Is it working" yet. There is no clear way of getting the (ActivityPub) URI/URI/id of that comment. Even when trying to fetch it from another Mastodon instance which knows the comments I can't search for it using the search field: https://techbites.info/news/cybersecurity/rise-in-scams-surrounding-twitters-gold-accounts-revealed-by-cybersecurity-researchers/#comment-15
Rise in Scams Surrounding Twitter’s “Gold” Accounts Revealed by Cybersecurity Researchers - TechBites
TechBitesAntonio Cambronero :wordpress:
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Collectifission
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Antonio Cambronero :wordpress:
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •vijay🍿☕️🍼
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •wonderful news about v2.0! Congratulations!!! And thank you for all that you do🎉🙌👏🤩
Would this also apply to Wordpress.com blogs that are not using the ActivityPub plugin?
🌮 Dave Millar 🌮
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •Seth 🎙️:jawn_sg: :lb:
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •𝑛𝑛𝑧
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •For me, the integration in both directions still only works sometimes. Today, for example, I had in both directions a missing comment:
https://wolkenstich.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/afd-verbot/#comment-19527 (a comment on Mastodon did not appear on wordpress.com)
https://social.tchncs.de/@York/111748411055828633 (a comment on wordpress.com did not appear on Mastodon)
If this will work some day, it'll be a cool feature, though.
AfD-Verbot
WolkenstichMatthias Pfefferle
in reply to 𝑛𝑛𝑧 • • •this is because we have not yet released the 2.0.X on WordPress.com yet! I am sorry, but there are still some bugs I have to fix to release it 🙁
But I think latest next week!