FYI I now also have a mastodon account @das_aug@chaos.social (I hope I linked that correctly…). Still trying to figure out how best to cross-link all these output channels together.

@das\_aug I saw @manton talking about a cross post to mastodon in the Slack earlier! I have my blog posts auto posted to it via Zapier though.

@rosemaryorchard saw that too, yeah. What I would absolutely prefer, of course, would be if mastodon had a similar option as micro.blog has, i.e. that I'd be able to specify an RSS feed as a source in my account. Not the case, though.

@das\_aug I use Quill to post to my micro blog, and it includes a toggle to post to mastodon as well. Maybe the kind of thing you’re looking for?

@alans hello fellow Quill user! Could you direct me to the toggle to post to mastodon? I haven't been able to find it.

@eli For me, it’s right on the post screen. Do you not have the button? To wire it up, there’s a config variable to set with your mastodon auth token, and then you need to click the refresh list link.

@alans ah, intriguing. Thanks for the screenshot! I do not see that. Is the config variable within quill itself, or is it a parameter your micropub endpoint returns?

@eli that would be a setting in your micropub server, normally.

@dgold that was my assumption -- I just don't see any docs. about it for quill, and I know quill now includes work around to support cross-posting to twitter.

@eli Hmm, I was just thinking about that, because I forget how those pieces are joined. It’s in my endpoint config file (I use nanopub). I thought I had that button even before I added the mastodon key, but maybe I’m mis-remembering?

@alans groovy! Thanks so much

@alans so far, I am using a completely different setup (using basically git post-receive hooks to generate a jekyll blog which acts as the source for micro.blog) that doesn't use micropub at all ..

@alans details of this setup are at github.com/mhellwig/...

@das\_aug that makes sense. I was considering using this Feed2Toot as a basis for my own thing, but that little limiter called "time" got in my way!

@eli 👍 you're welcome! I hope that does the trick for you.

@rosemaryorchard yeah, that's also one that caught my eye. May have time to look into it tonight, we'll see.

@das\_aug Got it. I tinkered with the mastodon API for about fifteen minutes to create a Workflow to post to it, so I imagine you could wire up something similar pretty easily.