Tag: Mastodon

• Across the Fediverse: Tags with Spaces (and dashes)

  I have been wondering: how would WordPress tags federate when they have spaces? In a couple of recent WordPress posts I absentmindedly end up using such tags (i.e., with spaces): “Year in Review” and “user feedback”. Here are the screenshots of two such tags (two different blog posts): When federating over to Mastodon it seems…

  vpalepu

  January 3, 2024

• Federated comments going to spam, and one other Comment subtlety

  In my post yesterday I noted that not all replies from Mastodon were federating as blog post comments. I did not think much of it back then. But today I saw those comments (and several others) in the spam section of my blog’s comments – they were also pending approvals. Guessing that this is happening…

  vpalepu

  December 27, 2023

• Post Edit Timestamps are federating

  

  WordPress is able roam/federate the edit timestamp, for when a user edits a published blog post. Edited posts on the Mastodon web client show up with an asterisk (*) next to the pretty-printed time stamp. In the screenshot below, you know that the post was edited after publishing, because of the asterisk next to the…

  vpalepu

  December 26, 2023

• Setting up Activity Pub for a WP.com blog

  

  … and early experiences for Winter Rant on the Fediverse and Mastodon. Yesterday I enabled ActivityPub for my WordPress.com blog (this blog – Winter Rant!). This means that Winter Rant is now an ActivityPub server that is discoverable as rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com – on ActivityPub clients, such as Ivory, Ice cubes, or any Mastodon client application. This…

  vpalepu

  December 26, 2023

• Winter Rant is now part of the Fediverse

  rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com

  vpalepu

  December 25, 2023