Do you use Mastodon? Do you have a WordPress site? Starting today, you can use the Jetpack plugin to automatically publish your posts to your Mastodon account.

When writing new posts or editing existing posts in the WordPress editor, you have the option to automatically share that post (alongside with some text and an image) with your Fediverse followers.

Give it a try and let us know what you think! We'll continue to iterate on the feature in the next few weeks, and would be happy with any feedback you may have. :)

Note: we've developed the feature with Mastodon in mind, but we know there are dozens of microblogging tools allowing you to post to the Fediverse today. Our integration already works with some of those tools out of the box, but not all. We're definitely aiming to support other aspects of the Fediverse in the future.

And another note: maybe you'd rather have your site become its own ActivityPub actor? That's possible, too! You can install the ActivityPub plugin, and each author on your site will have their own ActivityPub account, where each one of their new posts will be pushed.

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@jeremy Jeremy, do you know if JetPack has ever resolved its #pornocalypse problem?

Five years ago (the last time I looked) JetPack had the same porn-hostile TOS that WordPress.com has, making it unsafe to use by self-hosted WordPress bloggers who publish adult material. AFAIK this has not been enforced, but if the TOS never got fixed, it would still be a prudential barrier to many of us. Thanks!

https://twitter.com/ErosBlogBacchus/status/1073213577346080768

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“@DomSigns @Stout_Besigheid @more_matters Yup. But Jetpack terms of service *technically* include some of the same porn-hostile terms on the APIs it uses as wordpress dot com. Never been enforced, but I cannot recommend any product with #pornocalypse baked right into its TOS/AUP.”

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@ErosBlog I'll have to check with some of my colleagues and get back to you on that. I don't know much about legal stuff. :)

I'll reply again once I know more.

@jeremy Thanks!

@ErosBlog I asked my colleagues for clarification, and they pointed me to this document we published a few years ago:

https://jetpack.com/service-guidelines/

In short, the content you host on your site is your own; you can do whatever you want, most specifically whatever your hosting provider (MojoHost in your case) allows you to host on their servers.

However, the content you choose to host on WordPress.com servers (such as videos or images using our VideoPress service or our image CDN) must comply with WordPress.com’s User Guidelines.

That's only a short explanation though; I would encourage you to read the full document I linked to above for more info.

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@jeremy Jeremy it's extremely helpful to know how Automattic views things right now and I thank you for that link. However it doesn't seem to agree with the fine print details that concerned me five years ago.

Upon install, JetPack requires agreement with this TOS doc and a Wordpress.com account:

https://wordpress.com/tos/

Those TOS section governing Wordpress.com sites AND accounts states: "Prohibited Uses. Your Content and conduct must not violate the WordPress.com User Guidelines.

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@jeremy Those user guidelines are couched in terms of content on WordPress.com sites, but the document that invokes them says it applies to any use of a WordPress.com account, which includes the one you need to use JetPack. And the user guidelines themselves prohibit sexually-explicit material. Which you have to agree to, in order to use JetPack. See the issue?

https://wordpress.com/support/user-guidelines/

Anyway, that's what caused my concern long ago. Thanks again for the clarifying link!

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@ErosBlog I'll pass that on, we should be able to clarify this so it's less confusing.
Thanks for the feedback!