I don’t intend to abandon Friendica any time soon, but every once in a while the Friendica service at libranet.de runs into technical difficulties so I decided to create a backup account on mastodon.social. It’s marked as automated because I figured I might as well use it to syndicate posts from my RSS feed.
I’ve resisted creating an account on Mastodon’s biggest instance because I didn’t want to contribute to the cacophony of people already there, and because there isn’t much point to decentralization or federation in social media if everybody uses one server. But if I’m going to POSSE then mastodon.social’s size is a factor in its favor.
Just don’t follow me on Mastodon if you’re reading this there. You’re better off just subscribing to my RSS feed and emailing me if you want to talk.
As for how I’m syndicating: Jesse Squires has a solid tutorial for using If This, Then That to poll a RSS feed and send a HTTP request when a new post shows up. My existing posts won’t show up this way, but as long as I don’t get booted from mastodon.social this setup should syndicate new posts, beginning with this one.
At least, this post should show up unless I’ve fouled up my IFTTT config.
In the meantime, I’ve noticed that pandoc is much more
conservative about reading front matter when processing Org Mode text
than it is with Markdown. If I had specified a custom OpenGraph image
for this post, pandoc would not have read the tags since I wrote this
post with Org instead of Markdown.
Nothing I can’t fix with grep and sed, but annoying nonetheless. Guess I have my next project for after work…