Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
#DotSocial#Ghost#WordPress#Fediverse#FederatedMedia#ActivityPub#Federation
"#Socialnetworks were built on short posts designed for #speed & #scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?
Two of the #socialweb’s “ #longformers”…John O’Nolan, CEO of #Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, developer of the #ActivityPubplugin for #WordPress, are integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays…
We talk about rediscovering the magic of the #blogosphere… and where writing belongs in the next chapter of the internet."
https://pca.st/episode/39d99baa-2047-4192-8353-16858684b1de
🎉 Development for Mastodon compatible #ActivityPub polls in #WordPress is starting. This project is receiving funding from the latest round of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. #ngi0#NLnet
Just as a reference to @deadsuperhero 's experience: I can report similar behavior on my #WordPress#Blog @mediathekperlen . It takes up to 5 minutes to process +/- 1600 followers for posts with no media other than the featured image (max. 1280x720px). WordPress freezes and even has Nginx to throw "not available" messages.
Not too big of a deal, since it recovers nicely after a while.
Server details attached. (VPS on Ionos)
We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.
Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.
This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @tchambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.
Fortunately @benpate is starting to assemble people to solve this.
I'd love for this to happen but we're also stuck in the stage of replicating corporate platforms, instead of thinking about what we can do that they can't.
#ghost and #wordpress are doing this by making the article an AP item, instead of linking to it from a post. Maybe lemmy and mastodon should merge. most people don't post videos so maybe they don't need a #peertube account. maybe it should function more like podcasts. same with #funkwhale and #bandwagon.
It's not working yet (and I have many other complaints) but the latest updates from #threads, #ghost and #wordpress combined seems to mean that you can leave #substack for your own site and have your writing directly followed by hundreds of millions. of course they'd have to first enable federation :(
[FYI - I get an error trying to do that so far @johnonolan]
Is this what my Wordpress blog should look like?
Bringing my Domain name, my primary blog and my SocialWeb stuff together into one united page? (they would stack in mobile)
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#SocialWeb#WordPress#Fediverse#ActivityPub
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
