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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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From what I can tell, lemmy can't subscribe to wordpress blogs (?).
This, from what I can tell, is because wordpress is using the User/Person actor and not the Group actor, where lemmy is built on the group actor (community = group).
On the one hand, it would be interesting to see lemmy expand into recognising the User/Person actor in some way, which the devs acknowledge would be quite some work and so not worthwhile at the moment.
On the other hand, I wonder if wordpress has made the right choice here? Given that a blog can generally be a bit more like a community, with multiple authors, and articles with accompanying comments sections, using the Group actor by default or at least as an option in the set up might have made a lot of sense. Of course mastodon is the opposite of lemmy and is built on top of the User/Person actor with minimal support for groups and I'm betting wordpress's choice was in part driven by that.
Overall though, I feel like the fediverse is quickly heading toward a state where the minimum for any platform is to support both groups and users. I'd suspect that with good support for both, a number of options open up to mould a platform or its underlying API to what a user needs/desires.
I imagine it means that a Person enabled service allows you to post under your own account as a standalone post, a Group enabled service makes you post under a community or topic instead, mixing with posts from every other participant.
WordPress doing only the former can't be easily or at all compatible with Lemmy, since Lemmy only supports the latter currently
Reddit is an example of a Group system where posts are associated with a group. This is the model Lemmy uses.
Twitter is an example of a Person system where posts are associated with a person. This is the model Mastodon uses.
Some services can do both; like Kbin with their microblogs and magazines.
Sounds like the Wordpress implementation uses the Person system that Lemmy does not support at the moment, but probably works on Mastodon and Kbin (idk for sure).