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   brian (brian@farty.toot.monster)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:20:08 JST brian
   I wanted to integrate RSS feeds into my timeline on snac, so I hacked together a little bot that reads through a list of feed links, pulls the most recent items, and posts it to my instance (skipping any it's posted before). The intention is for the posts to only be visible on my local instance's timeline (thus, just visible to me). The bot is hooked to a private account that doesn't allow followers and all the posts are "unlisted", so hopefully I'm not spamming any other instances. However, I subscribe(?) to a relay, and I'm not certain how relays handle unlisted posts from private accounts.
   
   #snac #activitypub #fediverse #rss
   
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:20:07 JST The Real Grunfink

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     Hi. This is a cool idea!
     
     Unlisted posts are boosted to relays (they are public messages, after all). I don't think this may become a flooding problem for a relay, but please read its conditions of use to check if this kind of traffic is accepted.
     
     If these posts are strictly for your own personal account, you my try sending mention-only posts, and mention your account in the post.
     
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 17:01:36 JST The Real Grunfink

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     I'm afraid I forgot to add it to the man page (my fault 🤦), but the note_mention command does exactly that. Running snac with no arguments shows it, though.
     
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     brian (brian@farty.toot.monster)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 17:01:37 JST brian

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     • The Real Grunfink
     That's what I figured. I didn't see anything in the documentation about making a post mention-only from the terminal. I'm using a simple:
     
     echo "$article" | snac note_unlisted $SNAC_BASEDIR $SNAC_USER -
     
     to send the message to snac. Can note_unlisted be replaced with something like mention_only?