In-case you didn't see, <a href="https://wptavern.com/wp-tavern-launches-forums">WPTavern launched a forum today</a>. Yep, that kind of forum. A good ol' fashioned asynchronous, centralized sounding board for talking about WordPress.

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In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

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In-case you didn't see, <a href="https://wptavern.com/wp-tavern-launches-forums">WPTavern launched a forum today</a>. Yep, that kind of forum. A good ol' fashioned asynchronous, centralized sounding board for talking about WordPress.

Overall, I think this is a good thing. I firmly believe that WordPress depends too much on non FOSS software - I'm talking about thing like GitHub, Slack, and Twitter. All of these options have free, open source alternatives that work as well (GitTea, Element, Mastodon), so as far as I'm concerned, anything that wants to make us less-dependent on proprietary for-profit software is a great synergy opportunity for WordPress.

Overall, I think this is a good thing. I firmly believe that WordPress depends too much on non FOSS software - I'm talking about thing like GitHub, Slack, and Twitter. All of these options have free, open source alternatives that work as well (GitTea, Element, Mastodon), so as far as I'm concerned, anything that wants to make us less-dependent on proprietary for-profit software is a great synergy opportunity for WordPress.

Now, if we can just go a step further and make that Forum federated, we could change it so that the posts on the forum display on Lemmy (a federated, open source Reddit-like experience), and then still get the benefits of the centralized platforms that we've all grown accustomed to.

Now, if we can just go a step further and make that Forum federated, we could change it so that the posts on the forum display on Lemmy (a federated, open source Reddit-like experience), and then still get the benefits of the centralized platforms that we've all grown accustomed to.

This is a good thing, and just like my urging to go back to commenting on blogs, I think is an opportunity to move WordPress into the future of the web, where I think it's poised to really succeed if we can recognize it.

This is a good thing, and just like my urging to go back to commenting on blogs, I think is an opportunity to move WordPress into the future of the web, where I think it's poised to really succeed if we can recognize it.

WPTavern Brings Us Full-Circle By Launching a Forum

30 million people on threads overnight. 30 million people have joined a protocol, that if we assume their promise to federate is true, will be joining the fediverse soon. This may age poorly, but it’s hard for me to not look at that as a win for the open web.

30 million people on threads overnight. 30 million people have joined a protocol, that if we assume their promise to federate is true, will be joining the fediverse soon. This may age poorly, but it’s hard for me to not look at that as a win for the open web.

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Alex Standiford on How WordPress and the Fediverse Can Be Combined

I'm finally dipping my toes into an auto-poster setup using the Share on Mastodon plugin:

<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon">https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon</a>

Fingers crossed that this works as-expected, although I'm sure I'll end up with some formatting oddities in the short-term. It'll be worth it, though!

I'm finally dipping my toes into an auto-poster setup using the Share on Mastodon plugin:

<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon">https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon</a>

Fingers crossed that this works as-expected, although I'm sure I'll end up with some formatting oddities in the short-term. It'll be worth it, though!

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Freelance Web Developer &amp; Senior Software Development Engineer at GoDaddy. Digital Nomad of 3 years. I talk about WordPress, off-grid, &amp; RV life.