Notices by Sylkeweb Testing The Fediverse (sylkeweb@mastodon.social)

@pfefferle ich bin da ja eher zufällig drüber gestolpert, hab aber sofort kapiert, dass vielen Leuten gar nicht auf Anhieb klar sein wird, wie sich das unterscheidet, vor allem, wenn das als Marketing Tool daher kommt. 😅 Ich poste schon seit bestimmt 10 Jahren Content von verschiedenen Websites zu Social Media Konten und kenne mich da mittlerweile ein wenig aus, verwende zum Teil auch Buffer um das zu automatisieren. Vielen ist das alles schon „zu technisch“, mir macht es Spaß.

@pfefferle @lifewithtrees @manualdousuario @techaddressed
Danke, und bitte drauf verweisen, wenn nötig. 😅 Es geht mit nicht darum, ihn anzupreisen, sondern damit anderen zu helfen.

@lifewithtrees @manualdousuario @techaddressed @pfefferle
What you are looking for should be the setup under Marketing Tools. Here you connect your existing Mastodon (or other social media) account to your blog. Once you‘ve done that you should be prompted during the post publishing process to create a post to be sent to your Mastodon account. I described this (with screenshots) in my blog post a while ago, look for “Connecting your Mastodon account to the blog“:
https://sylkeweb.com/2023/10/15/wordpress-and-the-fediverse/

@feditips I had a small conversation with the usually well informed server admin but he couldn’t shed much light either and agreed with me that a news account doesn’t necessarily have to be an automated account. I think this is one of those cases where different services have made use of the sometimes not very specific AP protocol in different ways.
I don’t think it’s intended to be used with RSS as a rule, there is no such specification on the settings page. I chose it as I post news articles.

@feditips I’m running an account that is not really a bot account on Friendica. There you can’t set it to being an “automated account” in the settings but I made it a so called ‘news account’. It shows up as Automated Account on Mastodon. 🤷🏼 In this case that’s at least half true (I automatically republish items from an RSS feed and also manually add posts), but in other cases news accounts might be totally manual work, so I don’t really understand why Mastodon is doing that.