Dave Winer @scripting@daveverse.org
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Activitypub testing

We spent the day talking about Activitypub. I have excellent patient teachers.

This post should show up in my mastodon feed even though I’m just posting it to my WordPress site. 

Getting ready to do something similar with RSS.

Let’s see how it goes.

Very cool that links show up in mastodon. A huge feature advantage over Bluesky..

And titles. And simple styling.

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One of the things I learned was that in the model WordPress uses, activitypub plays pretty much exactly the same role as RSS would if mastodon supported inbound rss. Think of all the time that would’ve saved. 🤪

Is there a character limit? I do not know.

BTW I’m watching the Knicks play the pacers in the nba eastern conference finals and typing this during commercials and half time.

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Jeremy Herve @jeremy@herve.bzh
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@scripting

Your WordPress site and the ActivityPub protocol are doing all the work. 🙂

There are no character limits for the posts your WordPress site sends to the Fediverse because your site has no character limit. Same with the supported syntax.

Each Fediverse client then decides how to display the content from the posts your site sent to the inbox of your followers. Most apps (like the Mastodon app, Tusky, or the Mastodon web interface) support basic HTML, so you can expect content to appear more or less like on your site.

You could, for example, insert block quotes:

you can follow my daveverse blog, which I write using WordLand, on Mastodon — @scriptingDave Winer.

http://scripting.com/2025/05/23.html#a151738

You could also mention other Fediverse users, like @davewDave Winer ☕️, and they’ll get a notification in their app of choice.

Tags you add to your post are displayed as hashtags in your follower’s feed.

I wrote this post on my own WordPress site, in response to your ActivityPub-compatible WordPress post, and I mentioned your Mastodon account. You can consequently expect 2 mentions: one in the app you use for your Mastodon account, the other as a comment on your WordPress site (well, only you don’t display comments on your site!).

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If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://herve.bzh/?p=107483 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)