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Username en Activitypub

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Ik heb zojuist mijn gebruikersnaam aangepast om in te loggen op mijn WordPress site. Dat is op zich geen spectaculair nieuws, maar hopelijk is mijn blog nu logischer vindbaar in de Fediverse. Met de ActivityPub plugin moet het nu mogelijk zijn om dit blog te vinden op bv Mastodon en er op te reageren. Deze post is vooral bedoeld als test om te zien of dat nu wel goed werkt…

How do I POSSE to Mastodon now?

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This is what I’m running into to try to make new Indieweb technology as simple to explain as possible. Ryan Barrett did some amazing work and made it possible to connect your own Mastodon account to your site. So you can get likes and replies from Mastodon in the comments of your own site. But you can also publish something on your site and have it published on Mastodon as well. This could be a note, an article or whatever. So you Publish on your Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE). But now the question is, what steps do I take in WordPress and on Brid.gy (Ryan’s platform) to make this possible? I am not quite sure what to do where. Can I just include a link (https://brid.gy/publish/mastodon) to the webmention target at Brid.gy as explained in their manual? But how do I automate this? With the Syndication Links plugin? But what do I fill in where?

A step by step manual to publish would be very helpful. Maybe Neil Maher’s write up from a few months back on a similar matter could give some clues…

Update: It looks like the link to the webmention target on Brid.gy published this post (logfile). But it’s just the title and the link. How do I send a toot from my own site to Mastodon?