OK, #FediNerds: What would be the advantage of adding ActivityPup to my WP site? I get the tech and all but I can't really see a reason for it other than to play around with it.
@chris: Others could subscribe to your site using @yourname@yourdomain.com and get a message in their timeline each time you post to your blog.
@ramsey I post 99% of my posts to this account so I'm not certain if that would actually be helpful to anyone?
@chris Since your blog post would also effectively be the timeline entity, then likes, shares, and replies would automatically go on the post on your blog.
@chris I'm not sure if this is how the WP plugin behaves, tbh, but this is why you might want to implement ActivityPub on your blog.
@ramsey This is fine. I hadn't thought of the likes/etc. Definitely food for thought.
@chris Couple it with Webmentions, and anytime someone posts a link to your blog post, you'd get a Webmention posted on your site.
Of course, wherever they post the link would need to also implement Webmentions.
@ramsey I've played with plenty of Indieweb stuff in the past but, TBH, I've always avoided webmentions for the same reason I've removed comments. I now push the conversations to social like this so... maybe that alone would be worth it…
But also, making the site static would be pretty sweet so... :/
@chris I don't know how you'd do any of this with a static website.
@ramsey I wouldn't. That's what I'm trying to decide. Is it better to decouple the front-end and make it static or to to add extra features like federation. I'm honestly leaning towards the former at this point.
@chris Fair enough. I'm migrating from a static site to a dynamic site so I can implement things like this. 😃
@ramsey I get that. I came back to WP from Hugo about 2 years ago in part for the ability to really manage lots of content (https://chriswiegman.com/2020/08/hello-wordpress-my-old-friend/). That alone as I move my talks, books, etc into my site have made it worth it for me. The front-end, though, really just is static and I think I can do better on performance and all without spinning up PHP for everything
@ramsey Ah ha. That makes a bit more sense. Thank you.
@chris People can share your Posts here in the native way and comment using their Fedi accounts.
@chris others could subscribe to the site natively using Mastodon or another ActivityPub service. I think it’s still a little funky from a discovery and grok-ability standpoint, though. When I considered doing this, I ultimately decided to just setup an account for the site instead and auto-post to it — @initialcharge
@mike @initialcharge Having it's own account and autoposting honestly sounds like a better approach to me in most instances. Thanks for the feedback!
@abid Thanks. Looking into the site now!
@abid Definitely interested. Bookmarking there as well. Thank you.
@chris People on fedi would be able to follow and see updates on your WP site, leave comments, etc...
I should add that, if I don't add it (there's no real advantage to it) my other plan is to publish the WordPress site statically instead which, I think, might be a bit better over the long term.