I installed WordPress Friends , which adds fediverse node capabilities to my blog, so this is now a mastodon node. And an RSS Reader.
So I can
- follow your RSS feed
- use my https://digitalcourage.social/@leobard to follow this blog
- repost posts of this blog over at https://digitalcourage.social/@leobard
- continue what I wrote into my FOAF 2005
Today at wordcamp there was a talk by Alex Kirk about Friends.
For me, this is a continuation of what @danbri@mastodon.social started, given mastodon and wordpress. Because FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Alex added a feature to Friends that allows sharing private posts on wordpress only to friends, privately, which goes beyond FOAF but which adds a feature Facebook has to privately share info (in groups for example) and thus completes an open thread started in FOAF we still needed to solve.
Note: the friends plugin doesnot produce a FOAF markup directly.
It is first in the spirit of FOAF as it allows declaring “friendship” in a way that I can connect my wordpress to other wordpresses of friends. Alex Kirk realized this about 7 years ago with a clever wordpress hack. Now the contributors of WP Friends (mainly Alex) added more and more Fediverse/ActivitiPub/Mastodon support to WP Friends to implement this.
That is the second spirit of FOAF: being federated, system independent, a network of heterogeneous systems cooperating across companies and individuals. Bringing down the walls.
The third spirit of FOAF is extensibility: the community can add features and data, like https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-bridge-for-activitypub/ to distribute Events.
…and it has an RSS reader and Mastodon GUI, AFAIK. This way, WP Friends also offers a software implementation to focus my attention on what matters to me: my online friends.