Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
I just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
@ele Being able to use Ivory directly with your WordPress account is super cool! 👌🏻
@emanuelecariati it really is! thank you for the comment – I’m trying to reply from Phanpy :)
@emanuelecariati follow-up (please see above). My reply from Phanpy worked but your username lost its hyperlink so I’m not sure if you saw it / got a notification for it. But thank you for your comment Emanuele. I’m currently replying from WP’s native dashboard, let’s see how it goes
@ele
Hi Elena, yes, your post showed up in my feed :-) Sure you can also try following me from your apps but I have maintained a low profile so far…but that might change ;-) Have a great day and thanks for your interesting posts and the excellent fediverse intro video! Cheers, Chris
Thank you Chris! :)
@ele This is a reply from Mastodon. I’ve just had a nice coffee, how about you?
@TheVoidTLMB Thank you! And I’m having my 4th (or 5th?) cup of espresso right now :)
P.S.: I had to edit my reply because your username wasn’t showing up. Hoping this works!
@TheVoidTLMB can you please let me know if I was successful in liking your toot? I’m on Tusky now, but for some reason I cannot like toots from Ivory… On Phanpy it’s not consistent (sometimes I can, sometimes I can’t). Thank you in advance
Do you experience the same issue when trying to follow other Fediverse accounts from the Friends > Add New Friend menu in your site’s dashboard, or is this limited to following from a third-party app? If you don’t have that menu item on your site, you’ll need to install the Friends plugin on your site ; this additional plugin handles the actual following process (for now ; soon it will be done all within the ActivityPub plugin itself!).
It may also be worth checking your site’s connection with this tool, to make sure that everything is set up properly.
Thank you Jeremy. I had no problem adding people (“friends”) from WP’s Dashboard (the Friends plugin). I experienced the problem inside Ivory, Phanpy and Tusky – aka third party apps.
For now I’m putting on pause experiments with the Friends plugin and the Enable Mastodon Apps… until I’ve done POSSE for a good while and found a good system.
@ele I'm pretty excited to see how this will work out, when the follow feature for the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress comes.