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   brad_frost (brad_frost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:21:12 JST brad_frost

   Now that social media is scattered, I think it's finally time to set up an Indie Web-esque "post (even short stuff) on my own site and automatically post it to Mastodon, Threads, et al.

   I've got a WordPress site and I'm not looking to move off of that anytime soon; does anyone have any good resources on how to make that happen?

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:21:08 JST Eaton

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     • Scott Jenson

     @scottjenson this is something I’ve been chewing over for my own (ssssllllloooowwwwwllllyyyy) emerging personal site. It turns out current CMSs are uniformly terrible at this model, but building your own CMS is even more terrible…

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     brad_frost (brad_frost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:21:10 JST brad_frost

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     • Scott Jenson

     @scottjenson 100%. That all checks out and I share many of those sentiments.

     I'm mostly looking to only have to author things in one place and blast it out to multiple places. The manual carrying over to a bunch of places is annoying and tedious. I'd like to streamline that and then visit the channels to continue the conversation.

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     Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:21:10 JST Scott Jenson

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     @brad_frost ohh, then maybe the simplest solution is to use something like the Fedica app for those times you publish. It lets you compose once and blast out to all sites you've set up. No WP integration required

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     Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:21:11 JST Scott Jenson

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     @brad_frost I tried setting this up but a few things to consider:
     * I enjoy the conversations and FOLLOWING the conversations on each site is not a solved problem. (having them post back to my WP site sounds overwhelming)

     * Each site has different lengths so unless you're posting a SHORT blurb and URL, you're not saying much.

     * I don't want to post all of my social media to my blog

     * I like to scroll and be inspired, so I go to these sites anyway

     Just saying it's more complex than I thought

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:56:01 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Stephen Bateman

     @iambateman @brad_frost why not use the ActivityPub plugin and ditch mastodon altogether? It'd be like posting the same thing twice to the Fediverse anyway...

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     Stephen Bateman (iambateman@rtsn.dev)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:56:06 JST Stephen Bateman

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     @brad_frost it's honestly too bad...WordPress's founding premise was exactly that! But yea...it's not easy to make that happen on WP these days.