A few days ago, my WP posts stopped coming through to Mastodon, which I guess is when WP deployed a change to how the Mastodon plugin worked? I haven’t really been paying attention and don’t really think I should have to (stupid technology).
So now, on the blog’s Jetpack | Social settings page, you can syndicate to other social media sites, so now my blog posts looks like my regular Mastodon posts (I wonder how long posts will come through? I guess we’ll see.).
Ya know, I’m starting to be surprised this hasn’t been done yet (maybe it’s hard), but what we really need is an app (or web app) that acts as a front end for composing POSSE posts, and:
And probably a bunch of other stuff I can’t think of off the top of my head.
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:
‘Nuther update:
@david https://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/
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