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1. Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:02:35 JST Anil Dash

   Roughly 1/3 of all sites on the Internet just entered the fediverse. You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/

   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:02:31 JST Moon

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     • Boud
     • jaf
     • Mori
     @jeff @boud @mori @anildash is this integration based on the shit-ass plugin that doesn't support anything but Mastodon servers?
   • jaf (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:02:32 JST jaf

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     • Boud
     • Mori
     @boud @mori @anildash @pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com i am worried about the implications of having millions of servers potentially doing a GET request to a potentially arbitrary URL, e.g. a very popular wordpress makes a post that has something that is snarfed by everyone following it. instant GET flood from potentially hundreds of thousands of unique installs.
   • Boud (boud@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:02:33 JST Boud

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     • Mori

     @mori @anildash

     It took several steps of following URLs to find the plugin's licence. I was a bit worried given all the blabla about it being "acquired" by Automattic. It is [1][2] free software, covered by the Expat licence [3].

     Definitely good news! :)

     So it can be freely: 0 used, 1 modified, 2 redistributed and 3 redistributed in a modified form.

     @pfefferle.wordpress.com

     [1] https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/master/LICENSE

     [2] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/activitypub/trunk/LICENSE

     [3] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat

   • Mori (mori@mastodon.au)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:02:34 JST Mori

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     @anildash This is nice. Whenever I read comments on a website now I think, geeze, these should be run using fediverse and I can just use Masto account to leave a comment. Yeah I know I could sign up to the website, but I gave up doing that years ago.

   • jaf (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 12:03:23 JST jaf

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     • Moon
     • Boud
     • Mori
     @Moon @boud @mori @anildash yea. lmao.