Adding per-post cross-posting to Micro.blog manton.org

@manton Thank you so much for this nice feature!!

@manton I have been looking forward to this from the moment I figured out how cross-posting worked. Thank you!

@manton Oh, this is sounds cool. I'm going to need to give it a try.

@manton thank you SO much.

@manton This is soooo cool! Thank you for making this possible Manton! 😊🙏

@manton That is probably going to make a lot of people happy. I welcome it with open arms myself. 😃👍🪄✨

@pratik Correct. It's on by default, so basically you uncheck whatever you don't want.

@manton perfect 👍🏽

@manton Am I just stupid but I can't see how to turn that on. Is it not available for self hosted?

@msroest I guess not, unless I’ve misunderstood what @manton has written here : www.manton.org/2023/02/2...

"This is for blogs hosted on Micro.blog. If you are posting to an external blog like WordPress, there’s no mechanism to customize cross-posting other than the existing global options."

As for me, being hosted on micro.blog, I applaud the arrival of such a function that, like many, I was looking forward to. Thank you very much, @manton , your platform is getting better every day!

@msroest @terence Right, not for self-hosted because there's no place to store the list of services to use for a given post. We'd need to either send all posts through Micro.blog instead of directly to your server, or add a cross-posting setting to your feed. Something we can look into later.

@manton @terence Thinking of Micro.blog apps purely as Micropub clients, why not query the config of a Micropub server and show checkboxes for any targets provided under the syndicate-to property. When creating a post, send the checked values in the mp-syndicate-to property. No?

@manton @terence Oh but I guess things get complicated if you are self hosting posts, but using Micro.blog’s cross posting features, right?

@paulrobertlloyd Right. The Mac app does use syndicate-to, though! Haven’t tested with external blogs yet… I think it needs improving in a bug fix update because the posting code is a little different.

@manton Clarification: if the cross-posting is enabled and we post from the iOS app, will it be cross-posted especially since there’s no way to uncheck the option on the app?

@pratik Yes. Posting from an app that doesn’t have a setting for this yet will assume the post should go to all services enabled for your feeds.

@manton 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 that makes my, “What can go to LinkedIn?” decisions a lot easier!

@manton oh, now this could be interesting… neat add. When the mobile app gets updated, should be in a decent space w/content to play with this

@manton @terence doh sorry somehow missed that in the blog post, Thanks!

@manton Thanks for the clarification. Since I use the iOS app often, I'll disable the crossposting for now lest I accidentally share posts. Is it possible to uncheck the boxes by default and allow us to cross-post by actively checking the box?

@manton Excellent, I will definitely be using this.

@pratik +1

@pratik I think keeping them checked is still the best default for most people, and consistent with the old behavior. Will reevaluate after more people use it, though,

@manton Fair enough. Personally, I am more comfortable with not crossposting than accidentally crossposting when I didn't want to.

@isaact 💯 And thank you for adding this feature.

@manton @help Probably a bug or just something that shouldn't display in the UI, but it does.

As I mentioned, I enabled cross-posting and activating Mastodon and Flickr after you introduced the new feature to try it out. I disabled cross-posting a day later. But on the 'New Post' screen, if I toggle on the 'Show cross-posting, it still shows both Mastodon and Flickr boxes checked. I assuming nothing will cross-posting since the crossposting is disabled in the Settings > Feeds page.

@manton @help Figured it out. It works as expected if you first disable individual services before you disable the main cross-posting feature on the Edit Feeds... page.