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What are some of the services that are trying to make this process as automated and user-friendly as possible, ideally for people who have no idea how to host o

by jawns 5y ago

What are some of the services that are trying to make this process as automated and user-friendly as possible, ideally for people who have no idea how to host or manage their own web site? I'm thinking about the people who have no idea how to register a domain name, find hosting, etc. let alone federate their content to various social media services, so instead they use FB / Twitter / etc. as a substitute. What (paid, non-ad-supported) services offer POSSE but take care of everything for you?

politician 5y ago
You could probably leverage Buffer for this. They mostly target scheduled social media posts. buffer.com
- PersonalOps 5y ago
  Yes and no. Buffer and Hootsuite are 2 players in this game, both allowing to publish or schedule posts based on updates to an RSS feed you configure. Most blogging engines (WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo) come with RSS feed publishing by default. The tricky part here is the quality of the posts will be bad. Each social network has its own social mores and taboos. Some examples: Fediverse you refer to Twitter as "birdsite". Anything automated here, unless explicitly called out as a bot account, tends to get ignored as low quality. Facebook does posts in long-form. Twitter can thread it to be long-form, but each tweet needs to stand on its own with contributing to the overall narrative. Basic pagination type of splitting sticks out. LinkedIn... I don't know anyone who posts there that isn't trying to artificially puff themselves up in corporate culture, promote their product/service, or some combination. I'm truly unsure what a "quality" post on there looks like, so go wild. Basically, posting "<post-title> (<link>)" is probably the most ubiquitous, low effort ways of cross-posting your content but... it's pretty universally understood that it's low quality content and not likely to accomplish the originally intended syndication.
eropple 5y ago
The first thing that comes to mind to me is WPEngine or other high-quality hosted Wordpress solution. You can install a plugin (from the web console, it's very easy) to post to social media, and there's another plugin to cross-post to Medium if that's your bag. EDIT: I was wrong about Medium. They sunset that a couple years ago. You can use their import tool explicitly, or manually copy your post in and set a canonical link to your blog. That sucks.
pmlnr 5y ago
That wiki behind the link has quite a bit of depth to it, including answers to your question, so it's worth searching it. Anyway: - for a full service see, for example, https://withknown.com/ https://withknown.com/ - for WordPress plugins: https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins - one can also use services like IFTTT, Zapier, Integromat, etc to do this, see https://indieweb.org/2020/West/webmentions-and-automation https://indieweb.org/2020/West/webmentions-and-automation for more - there's https://brid.gy/about#publishing https://brid.gy/about#publishing ... aand a lot more.
- kixiQu 5y ago
  Seconding this: the protocol-ish things to learn about would be microformats2 and webmentions, and then Bridgy can POSSE from anything that supports those (someone probably has a premade WP install by now, lots of folks use static sites but they take more tweaking)
kixiQu 5y ago
I think Micro.blog does some of this for Twitter? Or if not, it plugs into Bridgy? https://micro.blog/ https://micro.blog/ https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/

by jawns 5y ago

politician 5y ago

You could probably leverage Buffer for this. They mostly target scheduled social media posts. buffer.com

PersonalOps 5y ago
Yes and no. Buffer and Hootsuite are 2 players in this game, both allowing to publish or schedule posts based on updates to an RSS feed you configure. Most blogging engines (WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo) come with RSS feed publishing by default. The tricky part here is the quality of the posts will be bad. Each social network has its own social mores and taboos. Some examples: Fediverse you refer to Twitter as "birdsite". Anything automated here, unless explicitly called out as a bot account, tends to get ignored as low quality. Facebook does posts in long-form. Twitter can thread it to be long-form, but each tweet needs to stand on its own with contributing to the overall narrative. Basic pagination type of splitting sticks out. LinkedIn... I don't know anyone who posts there that isn't trying to artificially puff themselves up in corporate culture, promote their product/service, or some combination. I'm truly unsure what a "quality" post on there looks like, so go wild. Basically, posting "<post-title> (<link>)" is probably the most ubiquitous, low effort ways of cross-posting your content but... it's pretty universally understood that it's low quality content and not likely to accomplish the originally intended syndication.

eropple 5y ago

The first thing that comes to mind to me is WPEngine or other high-quality hosted Wordpress solution. You can install a plugin (from the web console, it's very easy) to post to social media, and there's another plugin to cross-post to Medium if that's your bag. EDIT: I was wrong about Medium. They sunset that a couple years ago. You can use their import tool explicitly, or manually copy your post in and set a canonical link to your blog. That sucks.

pmlnr 5y ago

That wiki behind the link has quite a bit of depth to it, including answers to your question, so it's worth searching it. Anyway: - for a full service see, for example, https://withknown.com/ https://withknown.com/ - for WordPress plugins: https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins#POSSE_Plugins - one can also use services like IFTTT, Zapier, Integromat, etc to do this, see https://indieweb.org/2020/West/webmentions-and-automation https://indieweb.org/2020/West/webmentions-and-automation for more - there's https://brid.gy/about#publishing https://brid.gy/about#publishing ... aand a lot more.

kixiQu 5y ago
Seconding this: the protocol-ish things to learn about would be microformats2 and webmentions, and then Bridgy can POSSE from anything that supports those (someone probably has a premade WP install by now, lots of folks use static sites but they take more tweaking)

kixiQu 5y ago

I think Micro.blog does some of this for Twitter? Or if not, it plugs into Bridgy? https://micro.blog/ https://micro.blog/ https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/