Allow accessing your WordPress with Mastodon clients. Just enter your own blog URL as your instance.
Enable Mastodon Apps Plugin — WordPress.com
Despite Mastodon implying that you would use this plugin for engaging on Mastodon (when you have enabled it for that, see below), the plugin is useful when installed on a plain WordPress.
How Does Mastodon Work? - Kev Quirk
I’ve spoken about Mastodon numerous times on this blog. It is the social media platform I use more than any other, but for a new user it can be confusing because it doesn’t work like other social media sites.
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
blogs.social — Discover the open web
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
FediBoost
Automatically boost WordPress posts on connected Mastodon accounts when published via ActivityPub.
FediBoost Plugin — WordPress.com
FediBoost extends the ActivityPub plugin by automatically boosting your WordPress posts on your connected Mastodon accounts when they are published.
Mastodon Exit Interview
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.
My approach to running a link blog
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …
Coho
Discover a simpler way to socialize online with Coho, the Mastodon app that prioritizes ease-of-use and clean design. Experience the open-source, decentralized social network without the clutter. Join communities, share your thoughts, and connect with like-minded individuals all with just a few taps. Say goodbye to overwhelming feeds and complicated features, Coho simplifies the social media experience.
Teacup
To use Teacup, sign in with your domain. If your website supports Micropub, it will log posts directly to your site. Otherwise, it will post to your profile on this website.
The State of the Open Social Web
A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
How to easily add Standard.site support to your website | Mastro Blog
No need to store rkeys in your YAML frontmatter – just derive them from your existing URL paths.
I wrote out how I created my Hugo blog to then connect to @standard.site so that I could push my site to places like @standard-reader.app and other services that utilize ATProto. danarel.com/posts/blog-on-standard-site/
Pushing this blog to ATProto through standard.site
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