You created your website to reach an audience and to communicate directly with that audience. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an easier way for you to connect with them and make it easier for them to follow you and engage with your content online? In today’s episode of the Fediverse Files, DocPop walks you through how to connect your WordPress site to the Fediverse using ActivityPub.

In this episode of the Fediverse Files, ‪‪Doc Pop‬ talks with Bart Decrem, the co-creator of Mammoth, an open source Mastodon app for iOS. Doc and Bart discuss how the walled gardens of the present are finally getting some real competition from a better, and more open social web. A return to the original promise of the web. That anyone can find a home, their own place on the internet, and connect with whomever they want without getting trapped within a single platform thanks to open protocols like ActivityPub and open platforms like Mastodon. Whether it’s through a newsletter, a podcast or a publisher’s website, Bart’s goal is to get a million websites and a hundred million people onto the fediverse.

You’ve probably seen it on social media and in headlines around the web in the last few years: the fediverse. But what is it, really?

Can ActivityPub save the internet? — The Verge

The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful th

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Before we go too far, it’s helpful to understand what this vision for a better future of social actually is. “Decentralized social networking” is a heady concept, and it’s quite different from the way the internet works now. But here’s the simplest way I can think to explain it: to decentralize social networking is to completely separate the user interface from the underlying data. Any time you sign up for a new social app, you won’t have to rebuild your audience or re-find all your friends; your whole following and followers list come with you. Those things should be part of the internet, not part of an app.

Email is the best example of how this system works now: it’s based on open protocols that lots of services tap into, so while there are many email apps with different features and quality levels, your contacts carry over and will always work. (Can you imagine if you needed an Outlook address for your Outlook-using colleagues and a Gmail address for your Gmail-using friends, and then a Hotmail account just to talk to your aunt Gertrude? Well, that’s currently how social works now.)