Alexandra Samuel🇨🇦🇺🇸🤖Nov 14, 2024

What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms

https://www.alexandrasamuel.com/social/what-jetpack-social-posts-look-like-across-platforms

What Jetpack social posts look like across platforms - Alexandra Samuel

Rather than choosing a new home on someone else’s social network, can you use WordPress as a publishing hub for all your different networks? That’s what I’m trying today. You can read the explanation of why I’m exploring this option in the post I used to test Jetpack Social, which makes it easy to post […]

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Show threadPaul BunkhamNov 15, 2024

@awsamuel I help develop Jetpack Social, so it's great to see it working for you.

I thought I'd let you know that we developed the Social Notes feature for this use case. It allows you to create posts without titles and separate from your main blog feed. That way you have your own microblog that you can publish to all your networks.

https://jetpack.com/support/jetpack-social/sharing-social-notes/

You might want to look at the ActivityPub plugin that turns your site into a 1st class citizen of the Fediverse.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Sharing Social Notes with Jetpack Social

Quickly express your thoughts and share them across your social networks without the hassle of formatting or titles—perfect for spontaneous (or scheduled) posts that keep your audience engaged. Req…

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Show threadAlexandra Samuel🇨🇦🇺🇸🤖Nov 17, 2024

@paulb @awsamuel Thank you so much, Paul! I realized later in the day that Social notes is just the ticket. I really love the idea of returning to WordPress as my homebase and this made it very easy.

I do like the idea of the site itself being on the fediverse, but I can’t figure out whether that ends up being very noisy if I’m also posting to Mastodon via Social notes? What is your thought on whether to use only one at a time, or both?

Show threadPaul BunkhamNov 19, 2024

@awsamuel I think with Social Notes, I'd be inclined to use one or the other at the moment.

We've got an item on our roadmap to have the option of boosting the blog post/note via the connected Mastodon accounts, which I think would help with this. That way, the note would be federated, and then promoted via your Mastodon account.

Show threadAlexandra Samuel🇨🇦🇺🇸🤖
@paulb
Thanks for that recommendation. As you can see from my slow reply, it seems like my current approach is CUIABUMD: Curl Up In A Ball Under My Desk, and just try to minimize my social media-ing for a minute while all this shakes out. ;)
Nov 29, 2024 at 5:40pmWeb
Show threadPaul BunkhamDec 1, 2024
@awsamuel Yeah seems like a good strategy! I have found some communities here and on Bluesky, that don't increase my anxiety, but the best approach is probably to engage in real life more.