Well, I've been playing around with my blog (mosqueeto.net) and got the WP => diaspora and WP => mastodon plugins...
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Well, I've been playing around with my blog (mosqueeto.net) and got the WP => diaspora and WP => mastodon plugins working -- it's really pretty nifty.
I finally got around to opening up the blog for user registrations, and immediately got several from people I never heard of. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that...
But while thinking about it, it occurred to me that a wordpress blog would be a fine place for a g+ community to migrate to. WP themes exist that are sort of like g+. There can be lots of registered users, and users can have assigned roles: administrator, editor, author, contributor, and subscriber. These seem like a rough superset of the roles that exist in g+ communities. Free hosting is available at wordpress.com, and there are endless alternatives for paid hosting....
Well, I've been playing around with my blog (mosqueeto.net) and got the WP => diaspora and WP => mastodon plugins working -- it's really pretty nifty.
I finally got around to opening up the blog for user registrations, and immediately got several from people I never heard of. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that...
But while thinking about it, it occurred to me that a wordpress blog would be a fine place for a g+ community to migrate to. WP themes exist that are sort of like g+. There can be lots of registered users, and users can have assigned roles: administrator, editor, author, contributor, and subscriber. These seem like a rough superset of the roles that exist in g+ communities. Free hosting is available at wordpress.com, and there are endless alternatives for paid hosting....
Which plugin works for Diaspora?
ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ My guess is one of these:
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https://git.jeremydormitzer.com/jdormit/pterotype
wordpress.org - ActivityPub
❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ For Diaspora*...
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Kent Crispin Have you tried using your WP site as a way to migrate a Google+ community to Hubzilla? An example of Hubzillla using their own dog food:
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❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ I believe it is "WP to diaspora". I believe it is "Pterotype" that goes to mastodon.
ReplyDeleteMike Noyes No -- mosqueeto is purely a personal blog.
ReplyDeleteI do have a hubzilla node, as well (nymclub.net), I should mention, and it also gets my WP posts. I'm using it mostly as a feed reader at this point, but I expect to make heavier use down the line...
I don't have any communities that I am deeply attached to, otherwise I would try a free wp.com blog. I guess we could set up one for the google+ mass migration community, as a testbed.
Think very very carefully about giving 'someone' admin or editor status. You may come to regret that.
ReplyDeleteKent Crispin wrote: I guess we could set up one for the google+ mass migration community, as a testbed.
ReplyDeleteKent, That may be a worthwhile endeavor.
i use Wordpress for my personal web site and I love it but to think about this engine as a replacement for Google +?
ReplyDeleteKent Crispin "WP to Disapora" is only tested up to 4.9 :(
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ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ Yes, I know. I guess you could say I am testing it :-) (I am using 5.03, I think -- whatever the latest version is.)
ReplyDeleteDiana Studer It took me a while to even set up registrations at all. Something being deliberately set up to support a community would be an unusual case, I think.
Kent Crispin I think I tried that and it was kind of a mess. I might give it a go.
ReplyDeleteKent Crispin What would be real nice is for Google Checkout Takeout to provide ActivityPub compliant json. Then all we'd have to do is import.
ReplyDeleteMike Noyes Google Takeout or Checkout?
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond Takeout.
ReplyDeleteA Google+ community could migrate to a blog -- but the problem is that fits just one community. I came to Google+ for a set of interests, not just one.
ReplyDeleteAlan Peery Yes, that is a serious weakness in the scheme. Two things - first , what I would do to deal with it, and second, it seems unavoidable no matter where you go. In turn:
ReplyDelete1) I do all my social media things in a tabbed browser, and so having multiple wordpress blogs open is only an inconvenience, to be dealt with by learning new habits. Also, using RSS and a reader gives me a single stream. It's not as good as G+, but then nothing is. Of course, this is too absurdly convoluted and restrictive for most people.
2) It occurs to me that people with multiple communities are unavoidably stuck with this problem. Even if your community migrated to, say, MeWe, it's highly unlikely that all of them will, so you either lose many of your communities, or you track them on disparate platforms. Even more, it's unlikely that all members of a given community will move to the same location.
From this I conclude that what we should be concentrating on isn't finding a new platform for all, but rather thinking about how we are going to track friends that have scattered to the wind.
Hi Kent Crispin - did the same for the "African Music Forum" community that I migrated to a standalone WordPress as a subdomain on my main domain. Added the #ActivityPub plugin (and use Pterotype on my main blog, to be able to compare results & evolutions). Check cybeardjm[@]amf.didiermary.fr e.g. in #Mastodon
ReplyDeleteI can see 2 entries for "mosqueeto" in Mastodon:
mosqueeto[@]photog.social
mosqueeto[@]mastodon.social
(PS had to add [] and remove the 1st @, as G+ tries to convert everything... or blocks posting...)
I'm about to open the blog to ex-members of the community who want to become "authors" on the new blog (with heavy moderation, as existed here!!! ;-) )
Alan Peery Wordpress is effectively a large number of communities.
ReplyDeleteThere are further advantages to blogs, even more decentralised ones.
More and more WordPress blogs appearing in the Fediverse... I now have 3 active : fediverse.network - WordPress Instances — The Fediverse Network
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