This blog is now federated natively to lemmy
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I’ve had the ActivityPub plugin active on this blog for a while now and it’s been happily federating to mastodon for just as long. However it never worked on lemmy, and I always assumed it was just not set for it and was primarily focused on microblogging since lemmy was not even mentioned in the supported software.
This was until one of the lemmy developers contacted me, having been informed by a member of our lemmy instance that dbzer0.com was not properly configured for lemmy. I was perplexed of course because I didn’t really do any customization on the wordpress plugin whatsoever. I just used whatever defaults it came with.
Through some back and forth between the developers and me, I eventually started experimenting with the plugin settings, trying to see if any of them would make it behave in a way that lemmy could understand, until one of the options finally did the trick.
As a result, this WordPress blog is now happily existing as a lemmy community [email protected]
’tis a bit of a silly community name, but it works.
Unfortunately the previous posts on this blog are not retrieved automatically, so you won’t be able to see them or their comments in the community, but one can search for a blog url in lemmy and it will discover it and open it for comments. Any comments posted there should also appear as comments under the posts here which is pretty neat!
So if you’re on lemmy or piefed, just visit its community from your own instance and subscribe to it, and new blogposts will appear directly in your lemmy feed. I love apub!
Many thanks to both pferfferle (the apub plugin developer) and the lemmy developers who looked into this!
leave a comment (from lemmy?) to let me know what you think.
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Test comment. Please ignore.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I love to see the native interaction between lemmy, mastodon and wordpress from any of those platforms!
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Greetings from Lemmy, great to hear that this is now working. This is only a suggestion but maybe you might consider changing the icon of the blog to something a bit more personal than the wordpress icon.
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@[email protected] Is this federating to your blog?
Edit: Seems like it is now.
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Yep, I can see it fine.
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@[email protected] Awesome, it didn’t federate at first until I mentioned you, then both the comment and the reply I mentioned you in federated just fine.
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IDK why but I can’t see other comments from my instance.
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Check the github issue I linked. I’ve posted a screenshot there
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I need to approve new commenters on the blog which is an anti spam measure, so that might be why. I think I’ll disable that setting and see if it’s still an issue
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If it’d not using lemmy 0.19.6 then WordPress federation is not working well yet
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This is super cool.
Unfortunately the previous posts on this blog are not retrieved automatically, so you won’t be able to see them or their comments in the community, but one can search for a blog url in lemmy and it will discover it and open it for comments.
I don’t think previous comments are retrieved automatically either. From my instance, comments are empty.
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Yes the comments are the same. Unless you were subscribed to the blog via lemmy when the comment was left, you wouldn’t receive it and fetching it later doesn’t retrieve earlier comments.
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Just because I’m curious, which one was the setting in the plugin that made it work natively with lemmy?
