Someone’s been munching Elon’s Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:

Brave browser, because you’d have to be brave to use a browser built by a Nazi

In my defense, your honor, I too was misled by the headline, and coupled with my own ignorance, truly thought this was shiny and new.

I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.

We are not reddit

That’s why I’m here ;)

Here’s an article on the integration that goes into decent detail. And here’s the git repo, but you should be able to see via your plugin interface. The developer is very responsive and a great guy.

What I’ve found is that it does enable crossposting, and is a good tool for publishing your content out. Comments do come in if enabled. Subscribing to offsite Mastodon users is very “interesting” however - like being able to see people’s DMs if they’re across servers. There’s also issues with using it with cheaper hosts (Bluehost, I’m looking at you), as certain security settings will disable part or all of the feed.

To me, it feels good to use if your WP has one user publishing content. If you have other users on the site, it could start getting messy on the backend. Incoming spam is also an issue - Jetpack isn’t set up to scan incoming Fediverse content.

I haven’t investigated / tested it yet, but it should be possible. The thing is that Lemmy and Mastodon use different parts of the ActivityPub protocol to publish content, which is why interaction between the two is “interesting”. My guess is that you’ll be able to post and reply to comments and DMs, but it may be difficult to create posts in communities.

Side note, Mbin combines the Mastodon/Lemmy interpretation of ActivityPub protocols pretty well, so it’s possible, but when I last used it was still pretty fragile, and had stability issues. When the project was kbin, it had a real problem during the CSAM attacks on the Fediverse about two years ago, which led to the biggest instances being defederated and the founder eventually having to abandon the project.

It was new to me, and hadn’t seen it posted here - sorry if the language in the headline is misleading. Thanks for the links! I just started researching this after working with some Wordpress -> ActivityPub plugins and was curious if the functionality could extend to BlueSky.

Well, Reddit’s approach towards AI and auto-mod has already killed most of the interesting discussion on that site. It’s one of the reason I moved to the Fediverse.

At the same time, I was around in the Fediverse during the CSAM attacks, and I’ve run online discussion sites and forums, so I’m well aware of the challenges of moderation, especially given the wave of AI chat-bots and spam constantly attempting to infiltrate open discussion sites.

And I’ve worked with AI a great deal (go check out Jan - open source, runs on local machine if you’re interested), and there’s no chance in hell it’s anywhere near ready to take on the role of moderator.

See, Reddit’s biggest strength is its biggest weakness = the army of unpaid mods that have committed untold numbers of hours towards improving the site’s content. What Reddit found out during the API debacle was that because the mods weren’t paid, Reddit had no recourse to control them aside from “firing” them. The net result was a massive loss of editorial talent, and the site’s content quality plunged as a result.

Because although the role of a mod is different in that they can’t (or shouldn’t) edit user content, they are still gatekeepers the way junior editors would be in a print publishing organization.

But here’s the thing - there’s a reason you pay editors. Because they ensure the content of the organization is of high caliber, which is why advertisers want to pay you to run their ads.

Reddit thinks it can skip this step. Instead of doing the obvious thing = pay the mods to be professionals - they think that they can solve the problem with AI much more cheaply. But AI won’t do anything to encourage people to post.

What encourages people to post is that other people will see and comment, that real humans will engage with their content. All it takes is the automod telling you a few times that your comment was banned for X inexplicable reason and you stop wanting to post. After all, why waste your time creating unpaid content for a machine to reject it?

If Reddit goes the way of AI moderation, they’ll need to start paying their content creators. If they want to use unpaid content from an open discussion forum, they need to start paying their moderators.

But here’s the thing. Reddit CAN’T pay. They’ve been surfing off of VC investment for two decades and have NEVER turned a profit, because despite their dominance of the space, they kept trying to monetize it without paying people for contributing to it… and honestly, they’ve done a piss poor job at every point in their development since “New Reddit” came online.

This is why they sold your data to Google for AI. And its why their content has gone to crap, and why you’re all reading this on the Fediverse.

This is a core issue with ActivityPub, one that I noticed myself when I started working with it. Unless a server is setup to keep a user’s private marked posts completely off the ActivityPub feed, they’re accessible within it to any script that ignores the opt-out request.

My personal example was setting up wordpress to interact with a Mastodon instance, and suddenly finding private conversations published from Mastodon to my wordpress site that weren’t visible to me at all on Mastodon.

Needless to say, that gave me pause about building anything with the protocol until I really understand the access control behind publishing, because even instance owners don’t seem to fully grasp it themselves.

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Counterpoint - if you must rely on AI, you have to constantly exercise your critical thinking skills to parse through all its bullshit, or AI will eventually Darwin your ass when it tells you that bleach and ammonia make a lemon cleanser to die for.