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This is a big milestone for the folks at Automatic and the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) reader just became a great deal more connected and integrated to the open social web:

"The plugin’s ActivityPub API (https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/) now powers its first real production client: the WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) Reader. As a WordPress.com (http://wordpress.com/) user, you can now read, follow, and post across the Fediverse through your… 🧵 1/3
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Tim Chambers · 2w
Also a big deal: "For a long time, the plugin has spoken the server-to-server half of ActivityPub fluently, which is how your posts reach Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the rest. With 8.1.0, the plugin now also exposes an ActivityPub API, an implementation of the Client-to-Server (C2S) half of the protoco...