David J WhiteNov 14, 2022

POLL: If you've been on #Mastodon for over a week and used it each day, what do you do plan to do with your #twitter account at this moment?

Boost for a larger sample size please.

Keep Twitter account active
35.5%
Keep Twitter account but inactive
46.3%
Delete Twitter account
7.1%
Have already deleted Twitter account
11.1%
Poll ended at .
Show threadtechbitsNov 14, 2022

@DJWhite Mastodon is a place to talk, and although it feels like people might appreciate articles on my website, I think rocking up and posting links without context isn't really in the spirit of it.

Although, the length of post: I guess you can add a lot of context, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I'm terrible at promoting projects that I'm proud of anyway)

Show threadMichael Brooks Nov 15, 2022
@techbits @DJWhite You could make your blog federated. This would give it it's own account, and comments will display on your blog. If you have WordPress, you can install the ActivityPub plugin and you'll have something like @michaeldbrooks
Show threadtechbitsNov 15, 2022
@michael @DJWhite Yes, that's something I've started looking into, although I use Ghost and there's nothing available yet. If that changes, great. If not, it'll be a manual process. That could be better... if a post is written entirely to respond to search engine traffic, I'm less likely to want to share it (I think). More niche posts are the ones I'm going to be happier to share.
Show threadtechbitsNov 15, 2022
@michael I guess 'where there's a will, there's a way' though, right? RSS/webhook could post to it's own account anyway. Replies posted back programmatically. But there's a project in its own right!
Show threadMichael Brooks 
@techbits Yeah, there's a few workarounds. At first, I created a CLI tool that picked up the latest post from my RSS feed and posted it to my account. However, I think a separated account is probably better, and you can always boost those posts.
Nov 15, 2022 at 11:50amWeb
Show threadtechbitsNov 15, 2022

@michael yeah, exactly. Gives people who want to talk to you the option of following both, or not.

Using a Ghost webhook would work, post to a separate account. Call it a comments thread, post comments back to Ghost. Just need to work out the API for that. Now my brain is going