Short version:
How do I set all this up so I have my blog and one Mastodon account that I can use in Mastodon apps like a normal user but the content I create (either posts or replies) goes out via my blog? With hashtags.
Long version:
How is the whole WordPress/Mastodon/ActivityPub thing supposed to work? I’ve got all the stuff installed and it seems to be working, but I can’t help but feel like I’ve got it set up wrong.
What I’m after seems simple, but apparently it isn’t or I’m missing something. I want it to work like this:
- I post via my blog and it goes out via ActivityPub to a Mastodon account – call it Account A.
- Replies to my posts come back to and show up on the blog.
- I can follow people using Account A, and interact with them in the same way as a normal Mastodon account. That means via an app on my phone.
- I reply to someone’s toot the reply goes out via the blog and ActivityPub.
- I can post from my phone.
Well, so far, I’ve got some of this working:
I can do #1 & 2 via the ActivityPub plugin in WordPress – no problems there. It goes out under the @swduncan@swduncan.com user, let’s call that Account B.
I can do #4 also via the ActivityPub plugin and the reply bookmarklet, assuming I’m using the web version of Mastodon.
Doing #5 is sort of easy via Ulysses, possibly easy via micro.blog (except no hashtags), maybe through other means. I’m not touching Jetpack, although that would be a choice as well.
It is number #3 that is causing problems. I cannot log into Account B via the web to follow anyone. I can add followers via the Friends plugin on my blog, but then the only way to see them is the friends page on my blog.
I thought that the Enable Mastodon Apps plugin would solve this problem, but it doesn’t seem to. I can add account B, and I can post to Account B, but I can’t seem to add followers.
What am I missing here?
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