I just installed the ActivityPub plug-in for WordPress. With it, you can follow posts here at Burningbird by following bosslady@burningbird.net. Supposedly, then, this post would show up on Mastodon as a new post.
There’s also a plugin that would allow my WordPress weblog to subscribe to one or more folks on Mastodon, and publish their posts here. However, I won’t publish someone else’s work in my space, and I also have code to print out the RSS entries at the footer for my Mastodon space. Still, new toy…
I’m still debating on whether to install my own Mastodon instance. I don’t have a lot of interest in learning Ruby/Rails, so the technology doesn’t interest me, in and of itself. The ActivityPub protocol does interest me. Mastodon, itself, interests me, but I do have a comfortable home on mastodon.social.
If I do install Mastodon, then I have to decide if I want to spin up a new Linode for it, or learn to live with WordPress/MySQL duking it out with Mastodon/PostGreSQL. And then there’s the email service. Rumor has it that GMail is not Mastodon-friendly, so using it as a third-party email service won’t work. I don’t want to pay for an email service, so that would mean installing email support. And that’s just uglier than sin.
Decisions, decisions.
8 replies on “Testing WordPress/Mastodon ActivityPub integration”
@bosslady I had good luck running Mastodon with Cloudron on Linode, no code.
Works!
@bosslady @burningbird Following.
Now we’ll see if my comment reply makes its way over to you, on Mastodon.
@bosslady I hear ya. I’m trying (not especially successfully) not to be distracted but shiny, but I’m also interested in integrating some existing sites into ActivityPub without running an instance.
The integration with WordPress, for a beta, is very, very nice. Your reply on Mastodon becomes a comment in WordPress. We’ll see if this reply comment in WordPress will make it to Mastodon.
@bosslady Testing
Seeing if this works.