I set up a test blog at test.danielmrose.com with the handle: @dan@test.danielmrose.com and it I can’t follow that here in micro.blog, I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

@danielmrose I can't follow that from Mastodon either, so must be a problem on the WordPress side?

yeah, turns out siteground my host doesn't support webfinger on shared server space, oh well. who needs worpress anyway when we have micro.blog and write.as, am i right? =)

@danielmrose Right! 🙂 That's too bad about the shared server. That might end up being a common problem.

indeed. This just makes me more intrigued about moving everything to micro. I really want to consolidate. So many interesting things out here in the fediverse.

Isn't Wordpress.com different from Wordpress.org? I believe the latter is rolling your own, while the former is managed by Automatic, which should work as advertised.

@renevanbelzen That's right, but I believe both use the same underlying code for handling ActivityPub. There's a slightly different interface on top.

But the provisions on the Wordpress.com server might be optimized for federated posts and comments. On some random brand name shared server you never know what you'll get, other than a constant barrage of (unmanaged) server hacking attempts, of course.

@timapple It has to be enabled in the WordPress settings. Off by default.

@danielmrose I had this problem with several hosts. Pikapod is cheap and works for me though.