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BREAKING NEWS!
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is now co-authoring the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The intent is to make WordPress a "first party Fediverse member" on par with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Pixelfed.
WordPress already powers 43% of all websites—and every one is a potential Fediverse server.
Automattic employee @kraft just confirmed this.
@atomicpoet although I truly don't understand this - it sounds like a very cool development. Maybe we will get back to the idea of decentralized social media - somewhere I remember hearing/reading about the notion that the human cortex is only wired to truly be able to manage 250 close personal connections. If that is true - this makes more and more sense, conversations with a small group of people.
@lacouvee Let's put it this way, Janis.
Every WordPress blog can potentially be subscribed and read directly through Mastodon. You can comment directly to that blog through Mastodon. And whoever is using that WordPress blog can reply back to you.
Better yet, someone can read your Mastodon posts on WordPress.
Is that blowing your mind yet?
@atomicpoet @lacouvee What service that supports ActivityPub but not Mastodon can I follow right now from a Mastodon client? I don’t know if I’ve done this yet. I’m still new to it.
@brennansv @atomicpoet @lacouvee I've been running the ActivityPub plugin on my WP site for a couple of months, you can follow @ryan to see how it looks (unless you are a teacher or involved in the Edtech space you'll probably not want to follow for long, lol!)
My only issue is that sometimes when I post on WP the load skyrockets on my blog. I have't looked into why that's happening yet.
@goz I believe the spike in load is due to all the servers getting pushes and then pulling data from your server. There needs to be some kind of CDN or cache that ActivityPub can use to smooth that out. But that could be the flaw. How would that be funded? @atomicpoet @lacouvee @ryan
@brennansv @atomicpoet @lacouvee @ryan That makes sense, but it seems like a huge load for only 33 followers.
It's not enough to make me not want to use the plugin though. 
@goz It takes a hit from every server which has a follower. WP runs on PHP and MySQL which are not the most optimal. You could put a caching proxy in front of it to quickly handle all GET requests. There are some resources you can read to fine tune performance. There may be some features of ActivityPub your install is not using that will help.
@brennansv @goz I never heard anyone that #RSS feeds were so resource hungry. Why is #ActivityPub so much less efficient at burning the content into the world? Is that really just an issue with php and #WordPress ?
ActivityPub has a few resource hungry aspects due to how implementations work. The most resource hungry scenario, I know is the following:
First you post something to your followers (a few). Second somebody with lots of followers shares this. Third every server that this person has a follower on, fetches the object you posted from your server. This can lead to a few thousand http requests happening within a minute.
I don't think this is any worse than a few thousand people fetching your RSS feed simultaneously.
@danieldekay @brennansv @goz i read a thing recently where they stated that ActivityPub is a ‘chatty’ protocol.
Meaning it talks too much to other servers. Sending unnecessary requests, too much requests, too much data in them etc.