Write.asAug 8, 2018

#ActivityPub support is live! You can now follow *Public* Write.as blogs from Mastodon, such as our @blog

It's limited to Public blogs right now (a paid feature) so we can slowly roll this out and plug holes as needed -- once I'm confident things are stable in the next few days, it'll be available to everyone for free.

You can read a bit more about the update, and I'd love to hear any feedback / ideas / bugs here! https://discuss.write.as/t/activitypub-support/64

ActivityPub support

Today we launched ActivityPub support! This is an early, experimental feature that enables your blog to spread throughout the fediverse. This thread is going to be updated over time to show the current status of our implementation and gather any bug reports you report. So far, everything listed below has been tested to work with Mastodon. If anyone is interested in helping us test with other platforms, please let me know. What works Finding Write.as blogs by name from within Mastodon, e.g. @...

PaulAug 14, 2018
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#ActivityPub support is now available to everyone! 🎉 🎊 

Write.as blogs don't federate by default, so to enable it you can either sign up with our new page: https://write.as/new/blog/federated, or if you're already on Write.as, go to your blog's Customize page and click "Enable federation"

Note this also includes support for custom domains. So if your domain is hosted with us, you can now choose your handle when you enable federation and your blog will be accessible in the fediverse!

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Show threadslipstream/RoL‮⚡‭Aug 13, 2018
@write_as how long until federation by default
Show threadWrite.asAug 13, 2018

@slipstream Don't think I'll ever make it the default on the hosted version, since privacy-as-default always comes first.

But once we're open source people can choose the default they like.

Show threadAlbatroz JeremiasAug 14, 2018
@write_as you forgot mastodon and hubzilla... on your website.. instead of medium and twitter? 
Show threadWrite.asAug 14, 2018
@ajeremias Great point, just haven't updated everything yet 🙂
Show threadStrypeyAug 14, 2018
@write_as fascinating to have the option to turn federation off and on per *user* (rather than per instance). I wonder if this could be made an option in micro-blogging apps like (eg #GNUsocial, #Mastodon), as well as in other federated tools like #Hubzilla and #Friendica? Each user could toggle federation on and off from the POV of their UI, without impacting on what anyone else on the instance can and can't access.
Show threadinfinite love â´³Aug 15, 2018
@write_as Question -- does updating an article on write.as also send an Update activity to the outbox? I changed the slug on a post and I need to know whether to blame y'all or Mastodon for not updating the URL here. ;)
Show threadWrite.asAug 15, 2018
@trwnh Ah, definitely our fault -- we're not sending that activity yet (more info: https://discuss.write.as/t/activitypub-support/64). I'll get it in there next.
ActivityPub support

Today we launched ActivityPub support! This is an early, experimental feature that enables your blog to spread throughout the fediverse. This thread is going to be updated over time to show the current status of our implementation and gather any bug reports you report. So far, everything listed below has been tested to work with Mastodon. If anyone is interested in helping us test with other platforms, please let me know. What works Finding Write.as blogs by name from within Mastodon, e.g. @...

Show threadWrite.asAug 17, 2018
@trwnh Hey, Update activities are now being sent out, but it sounds like Mastodon doesn't do anything with them unfortunately. Still, it should work on any other platform that accepts them.
Show threadinfinite love â´³Aug 17, 2018
@write_as Good to know -- I'll submit the issue for that!