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folks (or organizations!) can just as easily run a wordpress instance with the ActivityPub plugin, it's a lot less messier than a full on rails app. The plugin
by riffic 3y ago
folks (or organizations!) can just as easily run a wordpress instance with the ActivityPub plugin, it's a lot less messier than a full on rails app.
The plugin is maintained directly by Automattic, as a plus:
https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-a-better-place-activitypub-for-wordpress-joins-the-automattic-family/ https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-...
- thih9 3y agoThe article addresses that: > I chose to run a Mastodon server (instead of some other ActivityPub implementation) because Mastodon is the most popular one. Good managed Mastodon hosting is readily available, there are tons of options for client apps, and I know for sure that my server will work well with other people’s servers.
- Zak 3y agoI self-host both Mastodon and Wordpress. I don't recall one being much more effort than the other, though this is on a VPS that did not previously have PHP installed so that might skew things a little. I did try setting up the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress and was not successful in getting other ActivityPub servers to talk to it. It's been a while and Automattic now contributes to the plugin so it might be worth a second try. Edit: gave it a second try and it seems to work without any fuss.
- Zak 3y agoIn the event someone wants to take the above comment as advice, the ActivityPub plugin works fine to allow people using Mastodon, et. al. to follow a Wordpress blog, but the Friends plugin which provides an ActivityPub client (among other things) within Wordpress generated extremely high CPU usage and did not reliably post replies.