Something seems to have changed with the rendering of text from the #WordPress plugin onto the Fediverse.
You used to be able to have paragraphs, bold, italic and even bullets, and they'd render if you did it in the right way.
I noticed that no longer seems possible - even line returns are removed. Did a quick test - copying the text of this post: https://social.coop/@RememberingStephen@25.netribution.co.uk/114202894755494769 exactly and instead of looking like image 1, it looks like image 2…
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://social.coop/users/nicol/statuses/116091692977030421 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
And so comes over the next 24hs, the final issue of #Netribution's 25th year of issues and updates @blog.
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It's been an interesting experiment of using WordPress #ActivityPub Plugin to publish a group blog - alongside an email newsletter. It's been more work than I expected. The only things that got more than a few likes and boosts were about Fediverse people.
More recently, changes to either the plugin or Mastodon's rendering has lost the paragraph breaks which makes it not as good for publishing/reading long-form as other APub tools (https://social.coop/@nicol/116091692977030421). The roadmap for the plugin (https://activitypub.blog/2026/02/11/roadmap-2026-charting-the-stars-of-the-open-social-web/) seems more about reading than growing #WordPress to be a Fediverse publishing powerhouse, tho improving discoverability is promising - most of the authors suffer from the "no posts here!" problem when you visit the author urls.
Anyway, links should trickle out - finishing with an interview I'm really excited to share, having sat on it for five years…
