Read: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid ★★★☆☆ 📚
I hate to say this because I adore my fellow tweeps, but some of the least effective content on here right now are auto-posted tweets. They’re visually off-putting, and the content sometimes doesn’t translate well for this environment. If you’re going to cross-post to Twitter and Mastodon, perhaps consider doing so manually and adjusting accordingly. (Said with love :twitter:)
I POSSE and cross post a fair bit, but I often just do it manually. Helps with both formatting & alt-text on images. But this like I am relying on brid.gy. It works well for Twitter, so this is a mastodon test.
Walked up the Kelvin to the vet school. Amazingly warm, 14 degrees, November day.
Victoria Park Birch, Autumn
Pass by this guy in Victoria Park today!
Interesting dilemma, Thinking about moving to #ds106 https://social.ds106.us. It seems moving mastodon servers is not that difficult. I think you lose old posts but since I’ve POSSED some from my blog it is not a problem. Alternatively the ActivityPub WordPress plugin turns your blog into a member of the fediverse. The is attractive, but I am not sure how much understanding & work is needed. Or I could stay on mastodon.social
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Oh what fun. I was caught up. Great ambiguous ending.
I do use Twitter for school work, just not comfortably I prefer to post to the class blog & syndicate to twitter. The latest twitter crisis reinforces this.
I’ve never really liked the idea of Twitter or any other service being the official or main channel of schools (or government services). Schools should not be promoting an advertising service. My ideal would some sort of #IndieWeb set up, with micro.blog style aggregation & syndication. Federation might be a close second.
Hi @johnjohnston@mastodon.social, I see you are syndicating posts to Mastodon. Attempting to do the same but have encountered a couple of snags. Wondered if you would mind sharing how you got it working? I went with IFTTT and webhooks.
An interesting question. I use the IndieWeb suite of plugins on my site. It posts webmentions. These can be sent to mastodon via plug-ins and https://brid.gy which also feeds comments back to my own site via webmentions.
I quite often just POSSE manually as it makes me a little more thoughtful.
Bridgy can also syndicate to twitter, pinboard & GitHub.