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I just ran into an untenable situation with WordPress’ “ActivtyPub” plugin. This plugin allows for the creation of an “author@blog_url” account within the Fediverse and any post published on the blog would be posted from that account. While this is cool in theory, as it frees up a personal account from being a bullhorn all the time, I just found that there doesn’t seem to be a way to deal with the created account as an actual Fediverse account. Since I published the errant post without an excerpt, the Mastodon post ended up being the full-quantity of characters that my instance allows. It also included the blurb beneath the initial image in the post which was a YouTube link. While this is all A-OK in the post, on Masto it looks like complete ass, and since this was posted by an account to which I have no ability to manage the way I manage my personal account, I can’t delete, fix, and re-post the advert.

As a result, I’m switching back to an auto-post plugin which advertises the publication from my personal account, scopique@gamepad.club. That means if anyone has followed the “@scopique@scopique.com” account, it’s going dormant. In addition, since the plugin created that account, and since I can find no way to manage it, it’s going into “zombie status” — it’ll still be around but otherwise inactive since I can only access it through that plugin, and I cannot delete it.

Scopique

Husband, father, gamer, developer, and curator of 10,000 unfinished projects.