Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.

WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).

While not blogs, im a big fan of Webnovels.

Check out Worm and Twig from wildbow and Practical Guide to Evil by EE. Some great stories and im sure there are even more

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.