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I really wish some more thought had been put into the #Wordpress integration to the Fediverse.

Having a blog post that comes from @someblog.wordpress.com@someblog.wordpress.com is so clumsy. And a blank profile too.

Perhaps V2 will be better

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Matthias Pfefferle
Matthias Pfefferle  
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there was a lot of thinking about the username! We want to have the domain as identifier, this might look a bit special in the first place, but that’s how ActivityPub was designed for in the first place. If your handle is known on the instance, it is enough to start searching for the first domain.

The ActivityPub plugin uses the informations of the blog. So, the more you define there (site icon, description, ...) the less empty it is.

David - Forking Mad
David - Forking Mad  
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I see what you are saying, but I find repetition is clumsy. I guess there is never a good answer that fits everyone. Something like @blog.domain.tld@wordpress.online seems to flow better to identify the blog and that it is s wordpress site, but that does tie you to their domain name. 🤔😆
Matthias Pfefferle
Matthias Pfefferle  
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I also understand your point. I just wanted to make it clear that this was not an ad hoc decision. We have given it a lot of thought. By the way, @username@domain.tld is one thing that is not part of the ActivityPub spec and was braught on the table as requirement by Mastodon. So the idea would be to have a simple `@example.wordpress.com` as an alternative to `@example.wordpress.com@example.wordpress.com`, somewhere in the near future.
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