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@tchambers @photomatt according to Matt there's 5k installs, but FediDB showing ~2500. I'm wondering how to improve discoverability (I had to add a few myself manually) - and how to drive installs - according to #SOTW there's not much interest (although Tumblr is next up for #ActivityPub integration) - WP value proposition is not clear, yet.

For me, I'd rather get the blog feed directly than a link via an author's account pulling in a RSS feed and reposting.

@jaz @tchambers @photomatt Just curious, what do you mean by “get the blog feed directly”?

@ricmac @jaz@toot.wales @tchambers @photomatt If the blog pushes the entire article just pull the blog into my feed behind a "read more", let me consume in the client.

Right now a lot of folks have an AP account and a bot that monitors their blog's RSS feed, pushing titles out as AP messages. This leads to multiple accounts representing a popular site's RSS feed.

Instead of following the author or fakebbc@social.com, I'd rather follow the blog actor directly and get the content.

@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @jaz@toot.wales @tchambers @photomatt Jaz, so you're saying you'd want e.g. Mastodon to be able to "subscribe" to RSS feeds directly? So it's more of a change in the client app than on the publishing side?

@ricmac @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @tchambers @photomatt I'm thinking a more general purpose reader client, but the notion is that if a blog has ActivityPub enabled, let me read it in an ActivityPub client

so for example:

@about.iftas.org is a blog actor I follow, I'd like a client that brings in those posts in the client I'm using for other ActivityPub, uh, activity.

@ricmac @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @tchambers @photomatt @about.iftas.org to be clear, I can see those posts in Mastodon, but the implementation I'm describing is a more nuanced multi-purpose AP reader, one that "knows" this is a blog service (not a video service, not a microblog service) and puts these in my "Blogs" menu - and helps surface other Blogs

@ricmac @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @tchambers @photomatt @about.iftas.org all that aside, I think subscribing to RSS within a client would be a beneficial feature as well, but if a blog is publishing over AP I'll take that as a preference.

@jaz@toot.wales @ricmac @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @tchambers @photomatt @about.iftas.org

So the upside? More efficient?

@alexwilliams @ricmac @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org @tchambers @photomatt

If the ActivityPub / RSS Intelligent Library (which I'm hereby naming April) existed, I could have one account to find and follow content from multiple ActivityPub contexts and enjoy it all in one space.