Dave Winer has been talking about how he’s hooked up his WordPress blog to Mastodon.¹ He raved about the possibilities it opens up. But he was light about how to do actually go about setting it up.

It seems like you need to:

• Install ActivityPub WordPress plugin.
• Click the checkbox of ‘Enable Blog-Profile’ in the settings of the plugin.
• That’s it? After that it seems like it just works. For example, you can follow this elliot.my blog by searching @blog@elliot.my in Mastodon of other ActivityPub sites. Here’s the profile on Mastodon.cloud and Micro.blog.

I’m hoping this post will show up!

Update: this is me doing an update to see if it gets picked up by the Fediverse.

Update 2: it only bloodly works! Not only the post – even the body of the post appears! But also the edits. The edit I’m writing right now I’m sure will be picked up.

Update 3: Mastodon updates when I update here, but Micro.blog doesn’t. Oh well.

1. Or more specifically ActivityPub. ↩︎