WordPress.com sites now have an easier way to integrate with the Fediverse, including Mastodon. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and other web publishing tools, is the new owner of ...

The ActivityPub plug-in is now available for all WordPress.com plans, allowing users to communicate with each other across other federated platforms like Mastodon. The ActivityPub plug-in is now ...

I miss blogs. Don't get me wrong: I write professionally for various websites, and I have an email newsletter, but none of them quite give me that blog feeling from the 2000s. The closest thing I've ...

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others -- with the acquisition of an ...

I'm ready to connect my WordPress blog with the fediverse and watch someone randomly yell at me on Mastodon. That's the future that's available... today! In a blog post, the company announced that ...

Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival ...

WordPress released version 1.0.0 of the ActivityPub plugin last week, allowing users to connect their WordPress blog to other social media platforms on the fediverse like Mastodon. Once bloggers ...

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