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We just released version 2.0.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress (WordPress.com release is planned for tomorrow).

Main feature: Full bidirectional/threaded comment federation 🎉

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.0.0

Thanks #Automattic @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel and @janboddez for your contributions

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

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in reply to Matthias Pfefferle

congratulations!

Would you mind giving an example of what is bidirectional comments means in this case? Does that mean that originate from the wordpress blog itself?

in reply to Laurens Hof

if When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!

(Limitation: you have to have an account on the blog)

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle

That is wonderful, so you don't need an extra ActivityPub account to reply to your blog post's comment.

I bet it will be easier to track the comment with this feature.

But I wonder for blog visitor that do not have ActivityPub account how it will handled?

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in reply to alien

> But I wonder for blog visitor that do not have ActivityPub account how it will handled?

That's a tricky one, because they have no real profile... we can try to give them a temporary, but we have to get sure that we do not run into a GDPR issue here.

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle

I think the default WP comment also retains some information about the visitor who commented on the blog, so it should be no problem, right?

Or, to make everything easier, you have to make an announcement on the blog that if the visitor wants to comment, they must have an ActivityPub account. So you don't need to care about the visitor information at all

The only problem now is the old comments on the blog, it is the only thing that hinders me from installing to old blog

in reply to alien

> I think the default WP comment also retains some information about the visitor who commented on the blog, so it should be no problem, right?

Yes, but I have to make sure that the user can either opt-in/opt-out from federation or at least create the awareness that all comments will be federated... otherwise I have a GDPR problem...

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