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A cluster of ~300 WordPress web sites have begun federating over ActivityPub and then bridging to ATProto, all Swedish, mostly blank.
Could be innocuous, could be the beginnings of an ad-farm, could be something more troubling.
We have no idea, but here's a list of domains in case anyone wants to poke around and see if there's anything to be gleaned. Please use all sensible precautions before visiting an untrusted domain.
@iftas if I want to federate my (nascent) website, where do I start?
@collette depends on the platform, what are you using?
@iftas thanks! I'm thinking about my wordpress project
@collette WordPress has an ActivityPub option, depending on how you're hosted you can install it or enable it in the admin section.
Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Wordpress.com Hosted: https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/
This creates a Fediverse/Social Web account for your blog that anyone can find and follow without leaving their app or platform.
@sophie thanks for the info!
I see (with added [...] braces)
// Load the SEO client script
(function() {
const API_URL = 'http://[localhost:8000]'; // Replace with your actual API domain in production
Oh dear. Thanks for sharing that signal.
I noted 2 days ago that AP-enabled wordpress sites are hashtag spamming, and that combined with tags.pub could be particularly bad at overloading noise on top of the signal. I hope the one I caught wasn't a harbinger of this, or we're going to start defederating Wordpress like mad.
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