Gregory's ServerHonestly, I think Automattic co-authoring the ActivityPub plugin is a bigger deal than Meta "planning" to join the Fediverse.
The ActivityPub plugin for WordPress already works right now.
But now Automattic is putting more weight behind it!
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@atomicpoet Given that I worked in the Drupal camp for years, I'm watching what's happening with them and ActivityPub with a lot of curiosity. Given that historically, Drupal dev tends to be heavily driven and financed by client need, and a lot of those clients have tended to be on the more corporate end of things.... I suspect we'll see a boom of development there when people start imagining the uses of ActivityPub that go beyond microblogging. Or at least, that's my prediction.  @atomicpoet yep. I'm just glad they beat Meta to whatever dumb crap they're planning to do. How a huge company like Meta could make a decentralized ANYTHING is kinda beyond me 🙄  @jake4480 @atomicpoet I think the plan is just to swamp Mastodon and make Meta the default. I’ll block any server related to Meta. Any Meta server should be defederated IMO. @Extra_Special_Carbon @atomicpoet you're probably right. And I hope EVERYONE blocks any Meta instance. The thought of Meta coming here is disgusting   @atomicpoet it's definitely huge! I knew about this plugin and have played with it in the past, but was disappointed. It was some time ago tho. Hopefully the full force of Automatic means it will mature quickly.  @atomicpoet that's indeed huge and quite a boost for @pfefferle
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@atomicpoet at it's heart automatic has always loved the idea of people sharing thoughts and ideas. This just continues it. I'm curious to see what this looks like in reality - and no I have not installed the plugin yet.  @atomicpoet completely agree. Their agreement puts this "further up the pipeline" in my mind. Consumers hitting Meta aren't going to stand up the same environments this change has the potential to bring.  @atomicpoet It certainly does a lot to undermine the concern you raised (or maybe boosted?) the other day, that Meta as an 800 lb gorilla can drive the standard wherever it wants. Automattic may not have Meta's market cap, but they're massively more influential on the software that's actually running things. (Sometimes I wish that weren't so - I hate WordPress - & I often think their choices are mistaken, but I've never thought they were evil.)  @FeralRobots You must be mistaking me for someone else. My standpoint is that "embrace, extend, extinguish" doesn't work: https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/110001632450586530 @atomicpoet Very possible, or it was something that came up in one of your threads. FWIW I don't recall the context being EEE as such - more the fallout from attempts at EEE, which has real cost. |
Drupal also has an ActivityPub plugin.
However, others tell me it's not as mature as the one for WordPress.
With all the traction that ActivityPub has, though, I can see that changing.
https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub