Fetching Wordpress blogs as communities

[Nicthurne]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

Acitivitypub-enabled Wordpress sites have two actors: "For instance, if your website is example.com, then the blog-wide profile can be found at @example.com@example.com, and authors like Jane and Bob would have their individual profiles at @jane@example.com and @bobz@example.com, respectively." (source)

From within a Lemmy search bar, I can fetch the "individual profiles", but not the "blog-wide profiles".
For example, from my account at lemm.ee I was able to fetch @eric@chefblogger.me (as seen here) but not @chefblogger.me@chefblogger.me.

I see that https://lemmy.ml/c/notiz.blog@notiz.blog exists, so it probably worked at some point, but similarly I currently can not fetch notiz.blog@notiz.blog to show up as a community/group from within lemm.ee.

Describe the solution you'd like.

"Blog-wide profiles" from Wordpress sites (resp. their Activitypub actors) should be able to be fetched from a Lemmy instance to show up as a community that can be subscribed to. That is especially crucial for federation as on Lemmy, one can't subscribe to the "individual profiles" which are federated as users.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

I'm really not knowledgeable enough to consider alternatives.

Additional context

No response

[harcesz]

Oddly enough fetching the collective profile (not the posts) seems to be working on 0.19.3 - https://szmer.info/c/kolektyw@adapulawska.org but not on 0.19.05

[dessalines]

Lemmy only allows following activitypub groups, not person actors. So unless wordpress identifies blogs as groups, then we can't support this.

[Nutomic]

No Wordpress should work, see #4692.

chefblogger.me seems to have federation disabled, because the following command returns html instead of json: curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" -v https://www.chefblogger.me/blog/

For notiz.blog the problem is LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust#114, which will be fixed in Lemmy 0.19.6

[DraconicNEO]

No Wordpress should work, see #4692.

chefblogger.me seems to have federation disabled, because the following command returns html instead of json: curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" -v https://www.chefblogger.me/blog/

For notiz.blog the problem is LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust#114, which will be fixed in Lemmy 0.19.6

I tried to subscribe to a few federated blogs but I would get it stuck at subscribe pending forever. Will this issue also be fixed in 0.19.6 as well?

[Nutomic]

Which blogs specifically?

[DraconicNEO]

Which blogs specifically?

soatok.blog

[Nutomic]

I tried with 0.19.6 and its working: https://voyager.lemmy.ml/c/soatok.blog@soatok.blog

[DraconicNEO]

I tried with 0.19.6 and its working: https://voyager.lemmy.ml/c/soatok.blog@soatok.blog

Awesome, so I guess this one has the same issue as notiz.blog which is getting fixed in 0.19.6