Catchall-Account

[kaffeeringe]

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 accounts. At the moment you can just follow @user1@example.com, @user2@example.com, @user3@example.com - it would be nice if I could just follow *@example.com. I don't care what * is or if I am able to customize it...

[pfefferle]

hmm... do you ask because you are the only one using the blog and you want to use the main domain instead of the /author/... domain? Or do you really have a blog with different authors and you want to follow the whole blog?

[pfefferle]

In the end it will be fixed in both plugins, because ActivityPub does not really define the @user@domain.tld stuff, but still uses the OStatus/WebFinger stuff instead.

[kaffeeringe]

I run several Wordpress-sites. My blog kaffeeringe.de has only me as author. But I am thinking about organisations that use Wordpress. There are most likely more than one author. Or the author changes over time. For exampel https://soz.is/ offers Wordpress to SPD volunteer organizations. They sometimes change the webmaster and don't just pass on the account data.

In my case I realized that my admin-username is also my ActivityPub-username. I changed that. I changed my username to @steffen@kaffeeringe.de, turned it into a non-admin account and Created a new admin-account with a different name. It would also be easier for one-person blogs not to publicly appear with their admin-usernames.

[DeadSuperHero]

One way to think about it, perhaps, is that the blog could have a master Actor assigned to it, that basically reshares all of the posts made by that blog's members?

That's effectively how PeerTube associates accounts and channels. An account Actor has multiple channels, each channel is itself a separate Actor that consists of reshared posts from the master account.

The only difference, perhaps, is that the attribution would point in the other direction, where the blog Actor is resharing the statuses coming from individual users.

[pfefferle]

any suggestions for the identifier? (identifier@domain.tld)

[kaffeeringe]

blog@example.com

Or you make that customizable...

[Suitbert]

@blog@example.com would help me with my multi-user problem at wordpress too. Then I would not have to care about those author pages ...

[transfluxus]

i would like that feature too. can we maybe try, i send anything in activityPub and the wp settings screen shows it, ... makes it easier setable, from which individual or groups of accounts, where new activities are created and sent to setable outboxes.

[pfefferle]

@transfluxus I do not understand your point completely... Can you please try to rephrase your ideas?

[transfluxus]

ok, lets leave out the "sending anything in activityPub" for now. the basic options I think as a admin on a wp blog with a couple of other users would be

• a list of wp-users > activitypub actor: assign groups of wp users to certain activitypub actors

this list would allow both, Catchall or one activityPub actor per wp user or anything mixed. I guess as first part of the setting, one could some UI to create/manage activityPub actor running through the wp blog.

[manoelnascimento]

#43 has been recently opened with a similar question. After reading carefully this topic (and not being a programming expert), I was able to conceptualize two possible ways to make it work:

a) Insert an option in the "ActivityPub Settings" page that allows admins to choose between "Follow the whole blog", "Follow blog sections" or "Follow author". In this case, for each option ActivityPub would create one user/actor for the whole blog (e.g., "wholeblog@blog.net"), one user/actor for each blog section (e.g., "technology@blog.net", "travel@blog.net", "fun@blog.net" and so on) and one user/actor for each blog author (as it does today). Admins would then choose what suits them best.

b) Create an option in the "ActivityPub Settings" that allows the automated republishing of the whole site or any of its sections in a preexisting profile (e.g., "wholeblog@mastodon.social", "travel@mastodon.social", "fun@mastodon.social" etc.).

This is an important issue because, for example, there are news sites (eg, WSJ, The Economist) that use RSS to spread their news by section, by author, or by grouping all site publications in a single stream. If something similar is made possible using the ActivityPub protocol using WordPress, this would be a further stimulus for growth in protocol usage.

[schiessle]

For the whole blog you could either use <blog title>@<blog url> or let the admin define a random actor name. I agree with @manoelnascimento that having "meta users" for categories/sections and tags might be useful as well.

[tobiasd]

I like the idea by @schiessle having such a mata user would be really great.