Conference Takeaways

I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ...

https://toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeaways/

I am sorry, but in these cases I am not very helpful… I have no experience with these apps at all.

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Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub One of the best things about the Fediverse is that conversations happen everywhere, across Mastodon, WordPress, Pixelfed, and dozens of other platforms. One of the trickiest things about the Fediverse is finding those conversations in the first place. Hashtags have always been the Fediverse’s answer to discovery. But because the network is decentralized, the posts you see for any given hashtag depend on which servers yours already knows about. If nobody on your server follows someone who posted about `#WordPressFederation`, you’ll never see that post, even though it’s public and out there. tags.pub changes that. ## What Is tags.pub? tags.pub is a global hashtag server built by the Social Web Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to growing the open social web, and an organization Automattic is proud to partner with. The idea is simple: tags.pub collects publicly posted content from across the Fediverse and redistributes it based on hashtags. When you follow a hashtag account like `@photography@tags.pub`, you’ll see posts tagged `#photography` from servers your instance might never have heard of. It fills in the gaps that decentralization naturally creates. The project is open source (AGPL-3.0), privacy-conscious, it doesn’t store post content, images, or media, and respects user controls like `#NoTagsPub` and `#NoBots` opt-outs. ## How It Works on WordPress.com If you’re running a WordPress.com site with the ActivityPub plugin, there’s nothing to configure. tags.pub already works out of the box. Your public posts and their hashtags are discoverable across the Fediverse through tags.pub, and you can follow hashtag accounts from your Following page. ## Connecting a Self-Hosted WordPress Site For self-hosted WordPress sites, head to **Settings → ActivityPub → Settings** and scroll to the **Relay** section. Add one of these URLs: * **Inbox:** `https://tags.pub/user/_____relay_____/inbox` * **Shared Inbox:** `https://tags.pub/shared/inbox` This creates a one-way connection where your server sends public posts to tags.pub for hashtag distribution, and your posts become part of the global hashtag network. ## Following Hashtags Once connected, you can also follow specific hashtags by searching for them as accounts. For example, to follow `#WordPress` posts from across the entire Fediverse, follow: @wordpress@tags.pub Any publicly tagged post that reaches tags.pub will be boosted by that account into your timeline. When posts are edited or deleted, tags.pub updates accordingly. ## Privacy and Control tags.pub is designed with user agency in mind: * **Opt out anytime** by adding `#NoTagsPub` or `#NoBots` to your bio, your posts won’t be boosted. * **Block the domain** entirely if you prefer not to interact with the service at all. * **No content storage** , tags.pub doesn’t archive your posts, images, or media. It only maintains boost records. * **Respects blocks** , if someone blocks tags.pub, their content stays out. ## A Step Toward Better Discovery Discoverability is one of the areas we’ve identified on our 2026 roadmap as a key challenge, and services like tags.pub are exactly the kind of infrastructure that helps solve it. By connecting WordPress sites to a global hashtag network, your posts can reach people who care about the same topics, even if they’ve never heard of your blog before. If you’re already using ActivityPub for WordPress, connecting to tags.pub takes less than a minute. Give it a try and let us know how it works for you. Have you noticed more engagement from the wider Fediverse? We’d love to hear about your experience.

Hashtag discovery in the Fediverse is limited by which servers yours knows about. tags.pub, a global hashtag server by the Social Web Foundation, fills that gap. It collects public posts and redistributes them by hashtag, so your content reaches people across the network. It works out of the box […]

do you have an example for "other atproto apps"?

how can I help!?

Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would on...

Today, Bridgy Fed begins expanding beyond microblogging, starting with long-form.

If your Atmosphere (Bluesky, Blacksky, Eurosky, Northsky, etc.) account is bridged, all of your @standard.site publications and documents will bridge over to the Fediverse and the web 📜↔️📃

1/4 🧵

github.com/Automattic/w...

Solved it! Bluesky adds https!

sure, but the most interesting one I would say!? because everything else is unformatted!?

adoption vs interoperability!?

🤔 that makes things difficult...

I like the markdown one though! thanks for link!

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform. Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

is there a $type for `content` to publish HTML in the standard.site lexicon?

But to answer the question: the one in the Automattic orga is the source of truth!

What do you mean with personal repo? 😳

It should support CRUD! But it’s early stage so there might be still glitches!

For sure! I would love to see you contributing!

GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-atproto Contribute to pfefferle/wordpress-atproto development by creating an account on GitHub.

I tried but @tylerjfisher.com already mentioned the issue: WebSockets!

github.com/pfefferle/wo...

No way! You did an amazing job!

you said, that you found it though standard.site ... can you recommend a site to follow long-form content?

awesome! thanks for the hint!

I have still so much to learn!!!

Our very own @snarfed.org sat down with @pfefferle.org to chat about the open social web, interoperability, and building bridges 👏🏼

GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-atproto Contribute to pfefferle/wordpress-atproto development by creating an account on GitHub.

POSSE!

I think making WordPress a PDS is (almost) impossible for now (at least as a one click solution), mainly because PHP does not properly support WebSockets!

I tried and failed :) github.com/pfefferle/wo...

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Connecting Decentralized Social Networks and Rethinking Interoperability

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myspace?

Hello from WordPress! 👋

This post was published directly to my PDS! In the best case it show up on bsky and standard.site compatible sites!

matthiaspfefferle.blog/2026/03/19/hello-from-wo...

Sadly I can‘t do anything here… I even had the same problem some weeks ago 😏

Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse | TechCrunch AltStore PAL now supports the fediverse, using its own Mastodon server to let iOS developers share app updates and alerts across platforms like Mastodon and Threads.

Alternative app store AltStore PAL joins the fediverse

I already made a share plugin and tried to build a PDS as plugin (with standard.site in mind)… but yes maybe I have to see this different… more as a Mailserver… never mind…

I know this might be special and very biased, but this means true federation for me!

This is not fully comparable I would say! A host and a domain are transparent, all control lies in the app (WordPress) I use. Don‘t get me wrong it is ok to do it so, but when I read „there should be plugin“ I interpret that as „it should be possible to run WordPress as a PDS“.