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How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – K²R

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This will be super-cool if it works.

https://hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/

(Also: using brid.gy to back-propagate comments.)

Update:

https://twitter.com/KelsonV/status/1597851167920308226?s=20&t=doO8nWt_Nzhsu2Cx9fkBBg

‘Nuther update:

@davidhttps://tech.lgbt/users/david/statuses/109557184903526295
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@futurebird lots of good details in the replies that you got, but maybe examples will help?

Excuse the broken images, that’s my fault

On my site I have https://fed.brid.gy/ set up. So When I post on my site and put the link on Twitter/Mastodon, it gets comments/reactions there and adds them to my site. I can then reply to the comment and have it post to social for me.

This post has replies from micro.blog: https://davidwolfpaw.com/wordcamp-boston-recap/

This post has replies from Twitter: https://davidwolfpaw.com/flashback-conference-recap/

Twitter is not a good tool for discussion

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https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1300769594563530752?s=20

Twitter ain’t a good tool for discussion. I’m not sure there ARE good tools, except maybe a website that you have to pay for (like The WELL), which would be kind of a filter (but then you’d probably want to federate with other similar sites, which… is like blogging, eh?) (Hmm, come to think of it, I paid WordPress to not plaster my blog w/junk ads.)

I’m a big fan of blogging. Not every blog post has to be some massive long-form article that will take you an hour to work your way through, but at least you can write more than 280 characters and you don’t have to thread tweets to write more (brevity is still the soul of wit, though). You get better comment-moderation tools, I think, than either blocking responses or just letting every idiot in the village green comment. I feel like Twitter and Facebook are the low-energy routes, really.

So there.

Post inspired by the following:

Hmm, note to self: Maybe get a little more serious someday about this blogging thing and find some better templates and plugins and a site that makes them available w/out charging an arm and a leg.