In 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

In 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.