So recently I’ve given some thought to trying out this new-fangled “Mastodon” thing and dipping my toes into the larger “Fediverse” as it’s known, and one of the first things I wanted to try was hooking up my blog – after all, the whole point of the “Fediverse” is decentralized publishing, and what is my blog but a node for publishing my own content? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I installed a plugin and after a little bit of tweaking (due to having my blog hosted in a subfolder rather than at the root of the domain), I was (supposedly) up and running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, at the moment I don’t have any way to check and verify that my posts are visible to people – but hopefully that will come soon, as I’m thinking of setting up my own Mastodon instance under the starkeith.net domain – but we’ll see how this pans out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For now, hopefully folks in the Fediverse can find and follow this blog at Dipping my toes into the Fediverse by exposing my blog via ActivityPub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203],"tags":[505,504,506,97,49],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","tag-fediverse","tag-mastodon","tag-publishing","tag-software","tag-wordpress","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1uD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6013,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2023\/01\/04\/keiths-belated-guide-to-mastodon-for-twitter-exiles\/","url_meta":{"origin":5743,"position":0},"title":"Keith’s Belated Guide to Mastodon (for Twitter Exiles)","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a ton of \"what is Mastodon\" or \"getting started with Mastodon\" or \"what is this Mastodon thing, really?\" articles out there already, but this is my blog and I wanted to write my own guide, so here we are. 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