🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is now co-authoring the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The intent is to make WordPress a "first party Fediverse member" on par with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Pixelfed.
WordPress already powers 43% of all websites—and every one is a potential Fediverse server.
Automattic employee @kraft just confirmed this.
If you want to check this out for yourself, take a look at the ActivityPub plugin page.
Automattic is now listed as the author.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
See screenshots.
Honestly, 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!
@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.
