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<p>Every major version is a milestone, and 8.0.0 is no exception. Your WordPress blog just became a two-way street in the Fediverse. Visitors can like and boost your posts directly on your site. Media from federated replies is handled more reliably, and new block patterns make it easy to drop ActivityPub features into your pages.</p><p>Like and Boost, Right From Your Blog</p><p>The Fediverse Reactions block now has optional Like and Boost action buttons, inline with each reaction group. When a visitor clicks one, a modal opens where they can enter their Fediverse handle or copy the post URL to interact from their home server.</p><p>The plugin remembers the visitor’s profile in their browser, so the second time around it’s even faster. And for folks who aren’t familiar with how the Fediverse works, each modal now includes a collapsible “Why do I need to enter my profile?” help section that explains the open social web in plain language.</p><p>This dramatically lowers the friction for cross-platform engagement.</p><p>Block Patterns and Templates</p><p>Setting up a Fediverse-ready profile page used to mean manually assembling Follow Me, Extra Fields, and Followers blocks. Not anymore.</p><p>We’ve added a “Fediverse” block pattern category with four pre-configured layouts:</p><p>Author Profile with Follow, a compact profile card.<br>Fediverse Follow Page, a full-page follow experience.<br>Author Header with Follow, great for author archive headers.<br>Fediverse Sidebar, drop it into any sidebar or widget area.</p><p>If you’re running a block theme on WordPress 6.7+, there’s also a new Author Archive (Fediverse) block theme template ready to go.</p><p>Publish Smarter With Post Format Suggestions</p><p>A new pre-publish panel now analyzes your post content and suggests an appropriate post format when your object type is set to “Post Format.” Got a post that’s mostly images? It’ll nudge you toward the Image format. A video post? Video format.</p><p>This matters because media-focused Fediverse platforms like Pixelfed and Vernissage display Notes differently than Articles, so choosing the right format means your content looks its best everywhere it lands.</p><p>Community Snippets</p><p>We’ve added a snippets/ folder to the GitHub repository, a home for lightweight, community-contributed extensions that don’t belong in the core plugin but are too useful to lose. The first batch includes:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets/fediblog-tag" rel="nofollow">FediBlog Tag</a>, automatically adds <a href="/tags/fediblog/" rel="tag">#FediBlog</a> to standard blog posts for better Fediverse discovery.<br><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets/locale-from-tags" rel="nofollow">Locale from Tags</a>, derives post locale from taxonomy tags.<br><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets/bot-account" rel="nofollow">Bot Account</a>, marks your profile as automated and displays a “BOT” badge in the Fediverse.<br><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets/blockless-activitypub" rel="nofollow">Blockless ActivityPub</a>, renders Fediverse reactions as pure server-side HTML, no JS required.<br><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets/photon" rel="nofollow">Photon CDN</a>, serves cached remote media through Jetpack’s Photon CDN for faster delivery.</p><p>Got a snippet of your own? Check out the <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/snippets" rel="nofollow">snippets folder</a> and send a PR.</p><p>Smarter Media Caching</p><p>Under the hood, we’ve rebuilt how the plugin handles remote media, avatars, emoji, images, audio, and video from across the Fediverse. Instead of importing everything into the WordPress Media Library at insert time, media is now wrapped in custom blocks and cached lazily at render time.</p><p>What does that mean for you? Faster processing of incoming content, less disk usage, and better rendering of audio and video attachments. Original remote URLs are preserved in block attributes, so caches can be regenerated without data loss. If you’re using Jetpack’s Site Accelerator, that works too, the new system is built filter-first.</p><p>For site admins, there are new CLI commands to keep things tidy:</p><p>wp activitypub cache statuswp activitypub cache clear</p><p>Minimum PHP 7.4</p><p>With WordPress 7.0 deprecating PHP 7.2 and 7.3, we’ve raised the minimum requirement to PHP 7.4. This lets us clean up compatibility polyfills and use more modern PHP features going forward. If you’re still on an older version, update your PHP before updating the plugin.</p><p>Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Add a help section to interaction dialogs explaining the Fediverse and why entering a profile is needed.<br>Add a notice on the Settings page to easily switch from legacy template mode to automatic mode.<br>Add a pre-publish suggestion that recommends a post format for better compatibility with media-focused Fediverse platforms.<br>Add a Site Health check that warns when plugins are causing too many federation updates.<br>Add backwards compatibility for the ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_SIDELOADING constant and activitypub_sideloading_enabled filter from version 7.9.1.<br>Add bot account snippet that marks ActivityPub profiles as automated accounts, displaying a “BOT” badge on Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms.<br>Add Cache namespace for remote media caching with CLI commands, improved MIME validation, and filter-based architecture.<br>Add federation of video poster images set in the WordPress video block.<br>Add Locale from Tags community snippet.<br>Add optional Like and Boost action buttons to the Fediverse Reactions block, allowing visitors to interact with posts from their own server.<br>Add pre-built Fediverse block patterns for easy profile, follow page, and sidebar setup.<br>Add snippet for blockless fediverse reactions.<br>Add wp activitypub fetch CLI command for fetching remote URLs with signed HTTP requests.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Improved active user counting for NodeInfo to include all federated content types and comments.<br>Improve language map resolution to strictly follow the ActivityStreams spec.<br>Superseded outbox activities are now removed instead of kept, reducing clutter in the outbox.<br>The minimum required PHP version is now 7.4.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Accept incoming activities from servers that use standalone key objects for HTTP Signatures.<br>Fix a crash on servers where WordPress uses FTP instead of direct file access for media caching.<br>Fix a crash when receiving posts from certain federated platforms that send multilingual content.<br>Fix automatic cleanup of old activities failing silently on sites with large numbers of outbox, inbox, or remote post items.<br>Fix comment count to properly exclude likes, shares, and notes.<br>Fix follow button redirect from Mastodon not being recognized.<br>Fix modal overlay not covering the full screen on block themes.<br>Fix outbox invalidation canceling pending Accept/Reject responses to QuoteRequests for the same post.<br>Fix QuoteRequest handler to derive responding actor from post author instead of inbox recipient.<br>Fix reactions block buttons inheriting theme background color on classic themes.<br>Fix reactions block layout on small screens and remove unwanted button highlight when clicking action buttons.<br>Fix signature verification rejecting valid requests that use lowercase algorithm names in the Digest header.<br>Fix soft-deleted posts being served instead of a tombstone when the post is re-saved.<br>Improve compatibility with federated services that use a URL reference for the actor’s public key.<br>Improve handling of all public audience identifiers when sending activities to followers and relays.<br>Prevent private recipient lists from being shared when sending activities to other servers.</p><p>Get It</p><p>Download from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/" rel="nofollow">WordPress.org</a> or grab it on <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a>. Remember to check your PHP version first — 7.4 or higher is now required.</p><p>A huge thank you to everyone who contributed code, testing, bug reports, and ideas to this release. Special thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://religious.social/@kraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kraft</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://herve.bzh/author/jeremy/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jeremy</span></a></span>, and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@futtta" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>futtta</span></a></span> for their snippet contributions.</p><p>Update, try out those Like and Boost buttons, and let us know what you think — what’s the feature you’ve been waiting for? What would you like to see next?</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/">See Original Article</a> </small>

<p>TL;DR: Any of you who are more familiar with Fediverse platforms that aren’t Lemmy/Piefed, can you let me know what the AP_IDs look like for users, posts, comments, and, if applicable, communities?</p><p>So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.</p><p>To make that work, and reduce false positives/negatives, I have to do some pre-flight checks on the URL that’s submitted to the search.</p><p>Currently, it checks if the domain is to a known federated instance and looks for specific paths in the URL. If it detects the URL is an AP_ID URL, it will only resolve the object and redirect you to it (skipping the lengthy search step). For false negatives, it will pass it to the regular search but still try a federated lookup along with the search.</p><p>For Lemmy and Piefed, those are:</p><p>/u/ for users<br>/c/ for communities<br>/post/ for posts<br>/comment/ for comments.</p><p>For Mbin, I think it’s the same except it uses /m/ for communities (they call them “magazines” I believe).</p><p>I think mastoon uses /user or maybe /username/ in the AP identifiers?</p><p>Any of you who are more familiar with Fediverse platforms that aren’t Lemmy/Piefed, can you let me know what the AP_IDs look like for users, posts, comments, and, if applicable, communities?</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/36006992">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>I recently came across three separate platforms:</p><p>Qortal: <a href="https://qortal.org/" rel="nofollow">qortal.org</a></p><p>ZeroNet: <a href="https://zeronet.io/" rel="nofollow">zeronet.io</a></p><p>and</p><p>Plebbit: <a href="https://plebbit.com/" rel="nofollow">plebbit.com</a></p><p>That all claim to be completely decentralized.</p><p>There’s even talk about how Plebbit is more decentralized than the Fediverse, because the Fediverse is based off of instances.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/s/0ynXzrD5H6" rel="nofollow">www.reddit.com/r/javascript/s/0ynXzrD5H6</a></p><p>And I was curious, would such a setup work better for the Fediverse, or is it basically just a huge scam/waste of time and money?</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/40568658">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost. </p><p>What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon. </p><p>It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own. </p><p>Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback. </p><p>Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem? </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/longform/" rel="tag">#longform</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a></p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1859983/inkwell-a-multi-tenant-long-form-writing-platform-for-the-fediverse-open-source-fep-b2b">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: </p><p>What’s new</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523426/labelling-or-hiding-ai-generated-content" rel="nofollow">Posts &amp; communities can be labelled as AI-generated</a> and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated" rel="nofollow">Comments can be marked as an Answer</a>, like on StackOverflow. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api" rel="nofollow">React to posts and comments with an emoji</a>. </p><p>Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. </p><p>PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. </p><p>When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. </p><p>Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. </p><p><a href="https://lemmy-federate.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy-federate.com</a> integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. </p><p>“Share on Mastodon” menu item on posts. </p><p>Vastly improve docs for new developers, see <a href="https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/b</span><span class="invisible">ranch/main/docs/developer_docs</span></a>. </p><p>Language selection is more visible during post creation. </p><p>Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. </p><p>View post/comment markdown. </p><p>Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. </p><p>Footnote support in markdown. </p><p>Polish translation. </p><p>Better HTTP caching, which <a href="https://join.piefed.social/2025/11/22/reducing-piefeds-dependence-on-cloudflare/" rel="nofollow">reduces dependence on Cloudflare</a>. </p><p>Bugs</p><p>Passkey fixes. </p><p>Polls can now have up to 15 options. </p><p>User profile performance improved. </p><p>Don’t allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. </p><p>Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. </p><p>API</p><p>Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. </p><p>Fetch url metadata. </p><p>Sort comments by controversial. </p><p>Comment search now works. </p><p>Hashtags. </p><p>Events. </p><p>Polls. </p><p>Emoji reactions on posts and comments. </p><p>See <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/c/piefed_api</a> for more details. </p><p>To upgrade</p><p>To upgrade from 1.3.x: </p><p>git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh </p><p>There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. </p><p>Donations</p><p>PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features. </p><p>Donations can be made via <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PieFed" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://liberapay.com/PieFed/" rel="nofollow">Liberapay</a> or <a href="https://ko-fi.com/piefed" rel="nofollow">Ko-fi</a>.</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1600132/piefed-1-4-is-released-emoji-federated-stackoverflow-and-ai-content-filters">See Original Page</a> </small>