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 @fediversereport I had Jetpack uninstalled, as it transferred data to the US. Is that still the case?

@Sascha @fediversereport You must indeed connect your site to our cloud (which includes servers in the US) to use this Social feature. When you publish a post, it is sent to our service which in turn pushes it to your Mastodon instance.

If you'd rather not do that, the ActivityPub plugin may be a better fit for you, or a different plugin which doesn't rely on that connection. I've heard good things about Share on Mastodon, for example.

Share on Mastodon

Automatically share WordPress posts on Mastodon.

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@jeremy @fediversereport Yep, I will wait for that! There is still discussion, what’s the best way to create Fediverse-accounts for WordPress-Blogs. I was missing an account to follow the blog as a whole and not just single authors. I will follow that path. :) Thank you for replying!
@Sascha @fediversereport Yep, that's a common request. We've been discussing our options, so you can expect some movement on that front soon. You can follow this issue for updates:
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/1
Catchall-Account · Issue #1 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub

Hej, I write my comment here because I am not sure if your OStatus-suite has a future with ActivityPub at the horizon. It would be cool if it was possible to follow the whole blog and not just acco...

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