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RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-5-0-follow-the-feed-quote-the-lead/Version 7.5.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress is out, and it now lets you quote posts!

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  • @cwebber @eyeinthesky @evan

    > There are paths out of the situation, but I'm not confident in the discourse around them right now, and hesitant about how much I want to engage with it.

    Yes. I posted something on the same subject today.

    https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116119597745488218

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  • @eyeinthesky The reason we can't have nice things is because the Fedi Devs don't want to deal with the basics of the protocol. Or: Because no one has yet provided C2S for Fedi Devs who don't want to deal with the basics.

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  • @cwebber @eyeinthesky @smallcircles @evan Apart from the fact that I would prefer turtle, I am very happy that AP ‘prescribes’ json-ld. This opens the door to many of my ideas. It makes possible what would be very complicated without . It's about time that the AP developers got to grips with it! https://rdf-pub.org/#rdf

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  • @eyeinthesky @smallcircles @evan To be clear, I think json-ld has a lot of great ideas in it, and it's the extensibility and linked data compatibility (which was a strong group requirement) story we had at the time.

    "JSON-LD is bad" doesn't really capture my views. "JSON-LD turned out to be too complicated for the majority of the ecosystem to work with, particularly when we gave the view that you could ignore it, except it creates a rift of interoperability between those who ignore it and those who don't and puts a burden on the latter who are doing their best to behave well" does match my views.

    There are paths out of the situation, but I'm not confident in the discourse around them right now, and hesitant about how much I want to engage with it.

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  • @eyeinthesky

    Here we come to my new interest area.. I spent a metric ton of time advocating for and and that was initially all on a very optimistic note on how our ecosystem would mature and grow over time, fostering a healthy future for itself.

    That however didn't go as planned. You might say that the entirety of the fediverse is still primarily tech-driven. Tech-first approaches that do not differ too much of the much reviled and rejected 'techbro approach'.

    Sure, there are plenty discussions on whether an app feature is 'ethical' or not, with discussions on e.g. opt-in vs. opt-out. But that is again purely app-centric.

    Where is the dev ecosystem headed, where should they focus, what externalities exist? Where do we want future as a whole to be? What's the vision?

    And then we come to the social side of things, both in the small, but also in-the-large. Technosphere aligned and subservient to Sociosphere. That is focus of https://coding.social

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  • @smallcircles “an interpretation that advocates for tolerating unexpected inputs is no longer considered best practice in all scenarios.” Somebody didn’t get the memo. lol

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  • @eyeinthesky @cwebber @evan @deadsuperhero

    There are a couple of really great documents on protocol design and maintenance. You often see me mentioning protocol decay, which is only a paragraph in the splendid Maintaining Robust Protocols.

    The next section for instance is on detrimental ecosystem effects if you are either too stricly enforcing standards or are too laissez faire about them.

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9413.html

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  • @eyeinthesky @cwebber @evan

    The protocol becomes more like the union of all app-specific functionality that has been created over time, and copied / depended on by others in fundamental ways. Instead of that all that happens in clear solution layer that rests above the protocol conceptually.

    The protocol boundaries are fuzzy.

    @deadsuperhero mentioned the other day that having identity management well figured out, would be the killer app for the fediverse.

    But without having these fundamentals on how we responsibly 'extend the fediverse' (deploy a new solution, deliver a service), I don't think this is the case. But having that functionality might make it very clear that we need this foundation.

    Now an identity is neatly app-bound, but then no longer and since all apps overloaded the ActivityStreams social primitives you may have to deal with the full combinatorial explosion of figuring out what the functionality of your as:Video or other object really is.

    Perhaps I see it wrong.

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    Now, this is cool! Goblins actors and ActivityPub. Found this via Planet Scheme.https://spritely.institute/news/mandy-activitypub-on-goblins.htmlhttps://planet.scheme.org/#scheme #lisp #activitypub
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    Right on the heels of WordPress 6.9 we released a new version of the ActivityPub plugin, making quote comments visible in the Reactions block and bringing you new ways of customizing your author pages.Quotes Join the Reactions PartyWhen someone quotes your post on Mastodon or other Fediverse platforms, you’ll now see it right alongside your likes and reposts. Quotes get their own row in the Fediverse Reactions display, making it easy to see at a glance who’s building on your ideas and adding their own commentary.Behind the scenes, we improved how we’re detecting quotes. Different platforms have their own ways of handling quote posts, and not all of them speak the same language. The plugin now understands these variations better, so whether someone quotes you from Mastodon, Misskey, or elsewhere, it just works.This means your engagement stats tell a fuller story. A quote isn’t just a repost—it’s someone adding their voice to yours, and now WordPress can recognize and display that distinction.Show Off Your Fediverse IdentityIf you’ve set up extra fields on your Fediverse profile—things like your website, pronouns, location, or links to other accounts—you can now display them directly on your WordPress site with the new Extra Fields block.Drop it onto any page, post, or your author archive template, pick a style that fits your theme, and your profile details appear right where your visitors can see them. Choose from a clean table layout, a stacked list, or styled cards. You can also control how many fields to show and customize colors to match your site.ChangelogAddedAdd documentation guide for using ActivityPub blocks in classic themes with Block Template PartsAdded a new Fediverse Extra Fields block to display ActivityPub extra fields, featuring compact, stacked, and card layouts with flexible user selection options.Added support for quote comments, improving detection and handling of quoted replies and links in post interactions.Add notifications for boosts, likes, and new followers in Mastodon apps via the Enable Mastodon Apps pluginAdds support for turning tags, categories, and custom taxonomies into federated collections in the Reader view so you can browse and follow topics more seamlessly.Prevent email notifications for comments on ActivityPub custom post types.Send a Reject activity when a quote comment is deleted, revoking previous quote permissions and ensuring consistent inbox handling.Store and retrieve webfinger acct for remote actors to improve identification and reduce lookupsChangedImprove gallery and image block markup for ap_posts with better alt text and optimized layouts.Improve support for media attachments by handling Audio, Document, and Video object types in addition to Images.Maintain consistent return values in Create handler.Remove trailing hashtags from incoming posts to prevent duplication with taxonomy tags.Store comments and reactions from followed actors on reader posts, and keep them separate from your site’s comments in wp-admin.Update compatibility testing for PHP 8.5 and WordPress 6.9Use tag name instead of slug for hashtag display.FixedAlways includes id, first, and last links in collection responses, ensuring followers and following lists display correctly in Mastodon.Automatically approves reactions on ActivityPub posts in the Reader view for a smoother, more seamless interaction experience.Deliver public activities to followers only.Disable REST API endpoints for internal post types.False mention email notifications for users in CC field without actual mention tags.Fix “Filename too long” errors when downloading attachments from URLs with query parameters (e.g., Instagram CDN URLs).Fix make_clickable corrupting existing anchor tags in ActivityPub contentFix PHP 8.5 deprecation warnings for ReflectionProperty::setAccessible() and ReflectionMethod::setAccessible()Improved handling of unusual activity data to avoid errors when activities contain unexpected formats.Preserve original ActivityPub activity timestamps when creating posts and comments instead of using current time.Prevented duplicate email notifications when ActivityPub instances re-send Follow activities for already-following actors.Prevents unwanted comment types—like pingbacks, trackbacks, notes and custom system comments, from being federated, ensuring only real user comments are shared with the fediverse.Removed a redundant instruction from the custom post content settings to simplify the UI.Reply block now shows fallback link when oEmbed fails instead of empty div.Simplified reply links by removing special handling for federated comments, making replies work the same for all comments where replying is allowed.Undefined array key warning in Scheduler::async_batch when called without arguments.DownloadsWordPress.org: activitypub.7.7.0.zipGitHub: tag/7.7.0Thank You!As always, a huge thanks to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, tested early builds, and shared ideas. Every bit of feedback helps make ActivityPub for WordPress better for the whole community.Version 7.7.0 is available now—update and let us know what you think!