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🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 203 (am I doing POSSE right? edition) 📖

Experimenting with the #POSSE method by posting on my federated #Wordpress site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

🔗: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Not sure if I'm doing things the right way but it feels empowering to have these posts on my site - it will be so much easier to organize them and find them in the future.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Elena Rossini · My adventures in self-hosting: day 203 — Elena Rossini
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New #blog post: Syndicating Content into a #Telegram channel with #Python

I've added a new network to my #posse cron

Turns out that posting into Telegram is _really_ easy - most of the effort really is in creating a bot account and creating a channel

bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/sof

www.bentasker.co.uk · Syndicating Content Into A Telegram Channel With Python
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I've always liked the basic concept and framework of Goodreads and it bums me out that it sucks in so many ways now. One thing I've been meaning to do in response is follow the practice of POSSE (indieweb.org/POSSE), and then decide later if I want to delete those accounts. Tracking my reading and writing capsule reviews are an easy first step, especially since my reading rate has tanked in the last couple years anyway.

IndieWebPOSSEPOSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

With all the #smallweb / #indieweb / #POSSE /... talk, how do you go about regaining "control" of all your stuff? I have been posting projects, images, ... all over the place.

And I feel like it would make sense to get that "centralized" on my own page(s).

Partially grabbing archives (like my old twitter acc) and finding reasonable ways to keep them without being dependent on X infrastructure (say e.g. for shortlinks).

But also things still in more active use, like projects on hackaday.io etc. I guess that would be technically the same as archiving, but maybe you can still add links to your new "archive"?

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Motiviert durch den #gpn23 Vortrag zum #indieweb (media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-134-indie) werde ich das jetzt ändern. Der Blog wird von Wordpress auf einen statischen Seitengenerator umziehen, um das Veröffentlichen einfacher zu machen. Ausserdem werde ich dann stringenter das #POSSE Prinzip des Indieweb praktizieren (publish on your own site, syndicate elswhere). Damit bin ich dann gegen #Enshittification von Plattformen angesichert, damit so ein Debakel wie bei Twitter, Flickr etc. nicht mehr passiert.

📝 My AI-Assisted Workflow for Sharing Blog Posts on Sharkey\n\nI’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I\ninteract with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate\nsomething I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But\n\nhttps://michaelmusings.com/post/my-ai-assisted-workflow-for-sharing-blog-posts-on-sharkey\n\n#n8n #POSSE #Sharkey #SelfHosting

michaelmusings.comMy AI-Assisted Workflow for Sharing Blog Posts on Sharkey I’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I interact with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate something I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But I do have ideas—and I’ve always wished I could bring them to life. Well, thanks to AI, that’s starting to happen. I recently started a Sharkey instance for myself. Honestly, I like it better than Mastodon. But I’m not quite ready to give Mastodon up entirely, and I wanted my blog posts to automatically be shared on Sharkey. When I post to my blog on Micro.blog, it uses POSSE (Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)—but Sharkey isn’t included in that. So AI helped me fix that with n8n. I set up several workflows so that when I post to my website, the RSS feed is monitored by n8n using the workflow shown below. It took a bit of effort—and the help of two AIs. Funny thing: I subscribe to both Claude AI and ChatGPT, and I often pit them against each other as a sanity check. Since I can’t verify the code myself with confidence, I compare their answers. And when they disagree, I paste both responses into Perplexity or Google’s Gemini to get a broader consensus on the best solution. In this case, Claude got me about 98% of the way there—but I ran into a formatting issue. So I dropped the whole thing into ChatGPT, and it immediately identified the problem, fixed it, and now my Sharkey posts look just like they came from Micro.blog. Now I have a similar workflow for this Scribbles site: • One less node. • Atom feed instead of JSON. Without AI, it would’ve taken me a year to figure this out on my own. Honestly, if it weren’t for AI, I probably never would’ve discovered Micro.blog, Scribbles, or anything else—I’d still be stuck on WordPress, struggling to figure it out (which, for some reason, never clicked with me, even after nearly a decade of trying). AI has been like a private tutor for me. I had always wanted to self-host using a Raspberry Pi, but never managed to start—until now. AI is truly making life better for me. Sure, I see the gloom-and-doom predictions about jobs being replaced by AI. But that’s not what this post is about. I just wanted to share how I’ve enhanced POSSE for my site with the help of AI. 👉 Follow me on Sharkey: michael@mitchelltribe.rodeo #n8n #POSSE #Sharkey #SelfHosting 

📝 My AI-Assisted Workflow for Sharing Blog Posts on Sharkey

I’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I
interact with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate
something I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But

https://mitchelltribe.com/2025/06/19/my-aiassisted-workflow-for-sharing/

#n8n #POSSE #Sharkey #SelfHosting

mitchelltribe.comMy AI-Assisted Workflow for Sharing Blog Posts on SharkeyI’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I …

Here we have #US. military leaving federal property and conducting what is clearly law enforcement activity. This is a blatant and outrageous violation of the #Posse Comitatus Act. This will be used at the oral arguments at the 9th Circuit this week.

"Wer nur auf den großen Plattformen von #TikTok bis #YouTube und auf den Websites der großen Publisher unterwegs ist, dem mag das egal sein. Aber wer das #Internet wegen seiner Vielfalt schätzt und wegen seiner ursprünglichen Idee, jedem Menschen die Möglichkeit zu geben, zu publizieren und Leser zu finden: Wir müssen uns Sorgen machen. Das #KI-Internet wird ein anderes sein als das, das wir kennen."

Kommentar: Das Ende des Internets, wie wir es kennen
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iX MagazinKommentar: Das Ende des Internets, wie wir es kennenKI kommt bei den Suchmaschinen an – und verändert das Internet grundlegend. Für die Vielfalt im Netz brechen jetzt schlimme Zeiten an, findet Oliver Diedrich.