9 Pages Tagged “Cross-Posting”
Tech Tips
- Customize Icons for Syndication Links (WP) The Syndication Links plugin offers a filter you can use to add icons for specific websites, or even for whole protocols. Here’s how you build it.
- How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT You can use IFTTT’s webhooks target to hook up anything to autopost to a Mastodon account.
- What Can You Build With the Google+ API So Far? (Obsolete) Google Plus has released the beginnings of its API for third-party apps. All you can do so far is read a user’s public activity. What can you do with that?
Blog Posts
- Reading Goals for the Rest of the Year
I don’t need suggestions for what might be interesting to read. I *have* books. *Lots* of them, both print and digital. What I need is to prioritize!
- ClassicPress Federation
I’ve been using the excellent ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress to connect this blog to the Fediverse for several years now, and it keeps getting better. The plugin makes any WordPress blog also work like a Mastodon server, so you can follow and interact from any site running Mastodon, Akkoma, Pixelfed (image posts only, of course), […]
- Weighing alternatives to Facebookified Instagram
Like many people, I’ve moved away from Facebook over the last couple of years. I haven’t deleted my account, but I only visit once or twice a month, and it’s been a long time since I’ve posted there. And like many people in that survey, I’ve come to prefer Instagram to Facebook. Friends and family […]
- Mixed Feelings: Facebook Has Shut Down (Some) Auto-Posting
I have mixed feelings on Facebook closing down automated posts to personal* profiles. It might cut down on spam, and it will lead to better descriptions on link posts, but it also locks you further into their silo. You can still write elsewhere and link back to it on Facebook, but you can’t use WordPress […]
- Saving Ideas from the Contracting Blogosphere
Special-purpose online communities have given way to spots on major hubs like Facebook. I’ve moved a lot of old content from those networks to this site.
- Delicious, Twitter, and Linkblogging
Link-sharing site Delicious had a feature to auto-bookmark everything you post publicly on Twitter. Convenient, especially if you use Twitter for link sharing.