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I’ve had a good read of the #IndieWeb docs but it wasn’t clear what the most simple way of hosting your own site and cross posting to Twitter and Mastodon was. What would you recommend?
For your syndication criteria and the greatest level of simplicity, I’d recommend looking at Micro.blog first. There are some other potential options listed at https://indieweb.org/Quick_Start.
If you’re a bit more technically adventurous, you might look at WithKnown or WordPress. The trouble is that there are lots of methods for syndicating and having control over what your content looks like. Your mileage may vary depending on what platform you choose and what type of automation and flexibility you’re after.
As an example, my own WordPress site has at least three different ways to syndicate to Twitter (not counting doing things manually), and how I do it depends on the content, my mood, ease-of-use, and what I’m looking for on the other end.
IndieWeb chat is also a good place to ask for help depending on what you’re looking for or for drilling into the specifics of what is available on individual platforms.
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Thanks for the thorough reply Chris. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. ✌️
I am on WordPress at the moment, though I am still having issues figuring out cross posting, but that’s somewhat caused by unstable APIs.
There’s brid.gy that can do a lot of the work of POSSE for you. I use @withknown, which has plugins for that, like the one that will send this reply to Twitter. Depends partially on whether you already have a web publishing tool set up.
This is the Twitter plugin 0.1.4 and my @withknown install is version 1.2.2 2020061101, so a bit behind the bleeding edge, but it works.
For your syndication criteria & the greatest level of simplicity, I’d recommend looking at @microdotblog first. There are some other potential options listed at indieweb.org/Quick_Start.
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Composer is definitely involved, but it was so long ago I do not remember the details. Are you on 1.2.2 of @withknown?
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Thanks for the thorough reply Chris. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. ✌️