Automattic announced this morning that the ActivityPub feature is now available on all WordPress. com plans. This means that anyone who has the hosted edition of the open source WordPress software now has the ability to connect to the fediverse, attaching their blog to federated sites. platforms such as Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica and others. Using the plugin, blog owners have the opportunity to gain more followers as they will be able to share their posts on other platforms and, in turn, get responses from those platforms that become blog comments.
Automatic notes: This can create a “more interactive and dynamic environment around your content,” the ad says.
By employing the plugin, the blog itself can also create the user’s profile in fediverse, instead of having to create an account directly in a federated application, such as Mastodon. But they can still succeed with that wider audience, which today includes 1. 8 million per month. active Mastodon users and a total of 13. 3 million users worldwide, according to a network statistical source.
To deploy the plugin to WordPress. com’s free, personal, and premium hosted sites, all you need to do is move to the Discussion segment with the blog panel settings and allow the “Enter Fediverse” classified change. From there, you’ll notice your default fediverse name, which refers to the blog’s domain (e. g. , “openprotocolfanblog. wordpress. com@openprotocolfanblog. wordpress. com”). This profile can be shared with other people so that they can keep it on Mastodon or other platforms. It is also conceivable to use a traditional domain and it will provide users with a shorter and more memorable profile.
Business and advertising sites will want to install the ActivityPub plugin and then follow the commands to set up your profile.
The ActivityPub plugin, now owned by Automattic, has 54,756 total lifetime installs, up from 42,831 last month. With the WordPress. com blog plugin, even more sites and users can be added to the fediverse. The numbers are mixed, with Automattic’s own statistics suggesting that more than 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month on WordPress. com websites. The company claims that there are a total of more than 150 million blogs on WordPress. com.
Automattic is the only company to embrace decentralized social media. Earlier this year, Medium announced that it would launch its own Mastodon server and integrate it with ActivityPub. The mag app Flipboard also announced that it will launch its own example on flipboard. social and integrate with Mastodon. so that its users can track Mastodon updates on the Flipboard app. Instagram’s new Threads app also promises to integrate with ActivityPub, but it hasn’t done so yet.