if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works.
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if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)
https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/
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if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)
https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/
@pfefferle hi! I’ve installed the plugin on my site nescia.nl/anna, which is a sub-blog using Wordpress multisite. It has created @anna but doesn’t seem to post anything. (There is a subsite “anna” and a user “anna” which posts most but not all blogs on the site.) Are there things I need to configure in the plugin?
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@pfefferle hi! I’ve installed the plugin on my site nescia.nl/anna, which is a sub-blog using Wordpress multisite. It has created @anna but doesn’t seem to post anything. (There is a subsite “anna” and a user “anna” which posts most but not all blogs on the site.) Are there things I need to configure in the plugin?
@venite @anna that is, because WordPress does not support subfolder blogs out of the box.
I hope this helps: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/trunk/docs/how-to/wordpress-in-a-subdir.md
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@venite @anna that is, because WordPress does not support subfolder blogs out of the box.
I hope this helps: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/trunk/docs/how-to/wordpress-in-a-subdir.md
@pfefferle I saw that, but isn’t the multisite thing native wordpress? That is, nescia.nl is a Wordpress site itself and /anna is one of multiple subsites. Won’t I break those?
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@pfefferle I saw that, but isn’t the multisite thing native wordpress? That is, nescia.nl is a Wordpress site itself and /anna is one of multiple subsites. Won’t I break those?
@venite this is mainly a specification issue/requirement. WebFinger (Mastodon uses that for @username@domain.tld identifiers) has to run in the domain root. So if you map this root WebFinger handler to one of the subfolder blogs, this will be the only one that is possible to federate. This is why we do not have a default handling for that. Happy to explain it in more detail (not that easy with only 500 chars 😉):
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if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)
https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/
@pfefferle nice to have talked to you directly.
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@pfefferle nice to have talked to you directly.
@elettrona same 🙂
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if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)
https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/
@pfefferle yes… stop people from posting entire 6 page articles on here. It ruins the timelines and makes everything unreadable! 😵💫
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@pfefferle yes… stop people from posting entire 6 page articles on here. It ruins the timelines and makes everything unreadable! 😵💫
@arnan do you have an example? the default is excerpt and title.
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if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)
https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/
@pfefferle Could you recommend a trick to auto insert the Reactions Block under all posts on a classic theme? For example, I could add it using an 'ad inserter' if there was a shortcode. Could I do something similar with a copy-pasted snippet of full code? Thanks!
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@pfefferle Could you recommend a trick to auto insert the Reactions Block under all posts on a classic theme? For example, I could add it using an 'ad inserter' if there was a shortcode. Could I do something similar with a copy-pasted snippet of full code? Thanks!
@AdamStuartSmith I plan to write a FAQ today. we had this question a lot over the last few days :)
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Perfect! Let’s make something awesome :)
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My approach to these issues is probably unfiltered, and I'm sorry if this makes my statements seem too categorical.
I should also point out that when I talk about Bluesky being tied to huge funding (and therefore adequate returns), I'm not expressing a moral judgment. I want to be completely non-partisan on the matter.
I simply wanted to provide my best explanation for the disruptions we're witnessing as a result of attempts at cross-pollination between the Blueskysphere and the Fedisphere.
Let me try to explain myself better:
considering the vertical nature of Bluesky PBC considering the horizontal nature of the Fediverse
I don't rule out the possibility of cross-pollination, but I do rule out the possibility of it being guided by the same principles.The development of the Fediverse is, in fact, driven by the community of developers who work only on the application layer and know that (almost) none of them has the power to decide on the "protocol." And it isn't based on a single business model. On the other hand, those who have decision-making power over the protocol know that any change would have a huge impact on an extremely diverse ecosystem. It's not easy to decide what to change because it's not easy to understand what impact such a change could have.
Bluesky's development, on the other hand, revolves around a single entity that holds decision-making power over the protocol, running the server and developing the app and APIs that dominate that ecosystem. And it's based on a business model that was already defined well before the protocol was created, with a protocol that was also developed with a business model in mind!The developers of the Fediverse were therefore Darwinianly selected by circumstances and today appear to be a bit more hacker-like, a bit more experimental, more adept at circumventing limitations, and (this isn't always a good thing...) more oriented toward community-driven financial support (and self-driven, because luckily for them, they all have IT jobs in a company). Moreover, not everyone is highly knowledgeable about the Activitypub protocol. And some of them are real "gourmets" of controversy...
Bluesky developers, on the other hand, seem decidedly more "secular" to me; they also have to deal with a more rigid protocol (definitely more protocol-based than the Activitypub protocol), strong centralized decision-making power, and objectively have more limited room for manoeuvre. Furthermore, these developers' livelihood model isn't clear to me (I mean, beyond their IT jobs at some company: do they all work for Bluesky PBC?).
I don't know... they seem like two worlds that aren't easily compatible, even from a social perspective...If this is true, then it shouldn't be surprising if the attitude of Bluesky stakeholders (the real ones, those sitting at the top) is positive only when a change could benefit their business model.
Conversely, the responses from Fediverse stakeholders (i.e., those dozen or so de facto influencers who, with a nod, can determine the public's favor or hostility toward an initiative) might seem more disappointing.I reiterate that even if I were right, this attitude wouldn't stop the new ideas germinating between the Fediverse and Bluesky developers.
It must be said, however, that since Bluesky was launched, I haven't seen any particular innovations. Recently, however, I've seen several new ideas emerge in the Fediverse, and these ideas, despite the rapidly declining user base, have led to very promising developments in the federated ecosystem over the past two years.All of this, however, would explain the communication difficulties between the two worlds, linked to the fact that the Bluesky leadership is too high-flying and the Fediverse stakeholders are too free-wheeling.
I hope I've explained myself better, despite the language barrier.
julian said in I also want to see #activitypub get some of the primitives that #atproto has such as decentralized identifiers (except for real), personal data stores, content addresses, etc.:
> This is an important observation we should take into consideration.My theory, however, would explain this reaction... :grin:
See you soon and have a good evening.
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I'm also in the year-end rally at my day job, but I do have a two-week Christmas vacation coming up. I'll see if I can whip up something then!
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Hey Andy, thanks for the mention!
I might add a map of physical locations, and a map-based search for businesses.
@juergen_hubert - would you be interested in making a drawing or two of what this might look like? I'd be happy to make a prototype.
I have my hands full with.. stuff.. at the moment, so I'm not able to do much design work. But once we know what we're doing, the actual coding might only take an afternoon or two.
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The W3C is chartering a group to work on social web standards, including ActivityPub
They are asking for public and W3C member comments.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2025Dec/0000.html
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I feel as though I need to jump in here to de-escalate, as things are starting to get out of hand.
What I can safely assume is that if we are not in the room, we cannot make any predictions on what will or won't happen. It's easy to mis-trust large organizations and assume the worse intentions, but that is biased and unfair.
Do you disagree? Probably, but I've seen the exact same malintent levied at a smaller scale against the Mastodon developers, simply because they are the largest implementor of the fediverse and are therefore bad by definition.
Something I hear often is the argument that one should judge a company not by what it says, but by what it does → don't blindly trust Facebook just because it says it has your best interests at heart, look at what it does with moderation tooling (or lack thereof), data privacy, etc.
So we need to apply that same lens to BlueSky. thisismissem@hachyderm.io is saying that developers there have been more open and forthcoming to some of her ideas — ideas important to her, and to the fediverse as a whole, and that she has received a rather lacklustre response from the AP side. This is an important observation we should take into consideration.
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@AdamStuartSmith I plan to write a FAQ today. we had this question a lot over the last few days :)
