The only way to know for sure is to test. I found I could subscribe to peertube channels using lemmy, but that wasn't intended and just a happy side effect of the common activitypub protocol.

I recall seeing new videos and being able to comment but not be able to create new posts that would federate since that wouldn't make a lot of sense.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

It should work, I was more commenting on another missed opportunity to bring the platform name to the mainstream audience.

Mastodon is more or less well-known nowadays thanks to articles talking about it for years, it would be nice to have the same for Lemmy

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on if they expose Person actors or Group actors. (so, probably not considering it doesn't make much sense to consider a blog as a Group)

In theory a blog could xpost to a Lemmy community via mentioning it but I have no idea if Wordpress does mentions like that.

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

In WordPress, one blog can have many authors, so it does make sense to consider it a group

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wordpress is an ancient cursed technology, but hey this is kinda cool

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ancient cursed technology that powers 43% of all websites

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[–] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't make it good. But really the worst part is the vast sea of poorly made plugins and themes, other than the concept of 'everything is a post' that puts nearly all of the data into a single database table. You know, instead of a sane system that stores different data types in separate tables and manages the relationships with an ORM.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 points 11 months ago

SAP is also popular, and nobody is actually known on planet Earth to have anything positive to say about it.

I figure their marketing department hires some really good call girls. Only explanation I can fathom.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Working with their APIs and their plugins' APIs is atrocious.

[–] Vincent@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Ah, so blog authors will still need to enable it manually. That's a shame.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others.

As a result, it launched version 1.0.0 of the plugin, allowing WordPress blogs to be followed on Mastodon and other fediverse apps.

That means anyone using the hosted version of the open-source WordPress software now has the ability to tie into the fediverse, connecting their blog to federated platforms like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and others.

By using the plugin, the blog itself can also become the user’s profile in the fediverse, instead of having to set up an account directly on a federated app, like Mastodon.

To implement the plugin on Free, Personal, and Premium WordPress.com hosted sites, you simply head into the Discussion section with Settings from the blog’s dashboard and enable the toggle titled “Enter the fediverse.” From there, you’ll make note of your default fediverse name, which references the blog’s domain (e.g. “openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com.”) That profile can then be shared with others so they can follow it on Mastodon or other platforms.

That could expand the fediverse’s numbers, as well, given that Automattic’s own statistics indicate that over 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month on WordPress.com websites.

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been following my own wordpress site from pixelfed and mastodon for months... Why is this news?

[–] Geert@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At the time, however, WordPress.com blogs were not yet supported. But that changes today.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I wonder why the plugin was held back from their users.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this was posted weeks ago.

[–] Geert@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It's now available on all wordpress.com plans. The article is from the 11th.