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Anil Dash

Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet just entered the fediverse. You canโ€™t stop an idea whose time has come. techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/word

11 Oct 2023 at 23:44 | Open on me.dm
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Chris Pirillo

@anildash ...I'm looking for some kind of clean browser extension and/or more page-level visible option to click-and-follow, now. Support won't be obvious.

11 Oct 2023 at 23:47 | Open on mastodon.social
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@anildash

we are quickly moving from "3 websites, each one composed primarily of screenshots of the other 2" to "one billion websites, but they are all stale mastodon forks with different branding, and most of them have defederated each other"

i'm here for it

11 Oct 2023 at 23:47 | Open on eldritch.cafe
jwz

@anildash I agree that it's good news, but "1/3 of all sites on the internet now have the ability to install a complicated and heavy-weight plugin" doesn't have the same ring to it.

11 Oct 2023 at 23:48 | Open on mastodon.social
Kye Fox

@jwz @anildash This is built in to wordpress.com now and needs no plugin, so even free blogs can use it. One of the rare times reading the article matters.

12 Oct 2023 at 0:12 | Open on tech.lgbt
jwz

@Kye @anildash Um, I *did* read the article and it says that the ActivityPub *plugin* is now available on Wordpress dot com, but still needs to be manually configured and is not on by default.

12 Oct 2023 at 0:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Kye Fox

@jwz @anildash It's been available on WordPress.com as a plugin since March. This is about wide availability without needing the plugin.

12 Oct 2023 at 0:42 | Open on tech.lgbt
jwz

@Kye @anildash That is literally not what the linked article says,

12 Oct 2023 at 0:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Kye Fox

@jwz @anildash You're right. The article is hot garbage and seems confused, and I read my own better understanding into it.

Here's the announcement from March when they added the plugin for plans that supported it: wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/

The official announcement of the new thing is better-written: wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/

""On Free, Personal, and Premium sites, you can enter the fediverse through your settings (see how below); for Business and Commerce sites, simply install the ActivityPub plugin and follow the prompts to set up your profile." (free, personal, and Premium don't support plugins, so they couldn't support AP before)

@jwz @anildash You're right. The article is hot garbage and seems confused, and I read my own better understanding into it.

Here's the announcement from March when they added the plugin for plans that supported it: wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/

12 Oct 2023 at 0:50 | Open on tech.lgbt
Anil Dash

@Kye @jwz it's not as easy as it should be, it's not as hard as installing a plugin on an instance you run yourself. it's within range for people who run these kinds of sites.

12 Oct 2023 at 3:33 | Open on me.dm
anelki

@jwz @anildash and apparently only talks to mastodon per @tedu

12 Oct 2023 at 0:32 | Open on tilde.zone
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Greg Pak

@anildash Anil, can I ask if you've tried this out yourself? Back when it was first announced, I gave it a shot and was kind of horrified to discover that it basically created an account that I couldn't edit or delete. Deeply strange -- just wondering if that's changed/improved, if you happen to know. Thanks!

12 Oct 2023 at 0:09 | Open on mastodon.social
mkb

@anildash Iโ€™m really curious about how the software and underlying protocols will evolve as we hit these inflection points.

12 Oct 2023 at 0:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Amy Hoy

@anildash i tried but canโ€™t figure out what the word โ€œeatโ€ here was supposed to be

12 Oct 2023 at 0:22 | Open on jawns.club
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Mick ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@amy I was searching the comments going โ€œWHY EAT?โ€ Iโ€™m glad you said something I was beginning to wonder if it was real. ๐Ÿ˜‚

12 Oct 2023 at 1:56 | Open on cosocial.ca
Anil Dash

@amy yeah I think it was an autocorrect for "have". I just deleted it.

12 Oct 2023 at 3:33 | Open on me.dm
Michael Engard

@anildash I am genuinely excited by the weight that Matt & Automattic are throwing behind ActivityPub. Not so much a breath of fresh air as gale-force winds.

12 Oct 2023 at 0:48 | Open on social.engard.me
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