Mastodawn

John Conway Jan 13, 2023

Mastohost @mastohost is taking on new accounts again. You can get your own Mastodon server for $6 a month! The great thing about it is they take care of the software, you do not need to be technical to run a server.

Mastohost is where sauropods.win is hosted, and I can recommend them. Support is top-notch, and it's all been smooth sailing.

https://masto.host/

#hosting #mastodon #fediverse

Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

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Adam S. Smith Jan 13, 2023

@john @mastohost Honestly, I'm tempted. I've even looked into the possibility of integrating my existing websites with the Fediverse but it doesn't seem possible. Some of my sites run on Wordpress, so maybe there's a plugin that allows people to comment on blog posts from a Fediverse account, but I haven't found one. I hadn't even heard of Mastodon and the Fediverse before last November so I'm still getting a handle on how it all works.

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Olav Jan 14, 2023

@AdamStuartSmith @john you might try the ActivityPub plugin. It federates your posts as @user@domain. I've gotten that far anyway, there's some fiddly bits with commenting, which may be my theme, maybe not. I keep putting off research

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Adam S. Smith Jan 14, 2023

@olavf @john Thanks, I tried it yesterday. Now all by blog users are federated.

It's not your theme, the plugin currently only uses posts, not comments. So in its current form I'm not sure how useful it will be. But the potential is exciting.

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Adam S. Smith Jan 14, 2023

@olavf @john ActivityPub also integrates with another plugin, 'Friends': https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends/

This allows you "To follow people on Mastodon or similar platforms using your own WordPress, you can use the Friends Plugin for WordPress which uses this plugin to receive posts and display them on your own WordPress, thus making your own WordPress a Fediverse instance of its own."

I'm testing this out now...

Friends

Follow others via RSS and ActivityPub and read their posts on your own WordPress.

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Olav Jan 14, 2023

@AdamStuartSmith @john I think that one is WordPress to WordPress, but I should fiddle with it some to see if there's other functionality in it.

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Adam S. Smith

@olavf @john The Friends plugin definitely integrates with Mastodon when used alongside the ActivityPub plugin – I've been toying around with it. I've even 'liked' Mastodon posts from my WordPress, but it still doesn't allow replies to Mastodon posts, and there are other significant limitations. However, the devs are aware of the limitations and working on it.