Dear WordPress folx, If you’re considering leaving Twitter for Mastodon, you should know that you can set your site up like a pseudo-Mastodon instance using @pfefferle‘s excellent plugins: ActivityPub and NodeInfo.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  1. Dear WordPress folx, If you’re considering leaving Twitter for Mastodon, you should know that you can set your site up like a pseudo-Mastodon instance using @pfefferle‘s excellent plugins: ActivityPub and NodeInfo.

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  2. @chrisaldrich Thanks Chris! I’m going to give the ActivityPub plugin a try on a test WP install. The question was as much whether there were any interesting and compatible CMS/blog engines I’d missed. So far it sounds like WP + plugins is the most complete, so I’ll probably be sticking with that if nothing else comes up

  3. @econproph @jasongreen @dajbelshaw @katebowles @fncll @Downes @bonstewart @mahabali This set up doesn’t include a built in feed reader for reading others’ content, but for that I still rely on a social feed reader (using RSS, Atom, h-feeds) to subscribe to websites, social media streams, and even Mastodon (yes, Mastodon has RSS and h-feed mark up for subscribing to feeds!) The nice part is that I don’t need to spend time managing multiple accounts.

  4. @econproph @jasongreen @dajbelshaw @katebowles @fncll @Downes @bonstewart @mahabali As I think about it more, I remember there’s an up to date Mastodon fork from @darius called Hometown which conveniently has a “local only” posting mode. Some here might be interested in it for potential classroom use as local posts don’t federate with the outside and could be used to protect students’ content. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Local-only-posting
    Local only posting · hometown-fork/hometown Wiki

  5. Mastodon is an open source social network project that supports some IndieWeb building blocks like microformats2 & rel-me, and has a federation of many instances, including https://indieweb.social/ for IndieWeb fans.

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