Not a Twitter Quitter

> currently this blog posts articles in two separate subjects, Macs and painting; while that works fine on Twitter, there doesn’t appear to be an easy way of getting good coverage on Mastodon without dividing the blog into two, and ceasing to be as eclectic.

Hmm, are they concerned with what instance they’d post on based on subject matter or something? People really do dramatically overestimate how important this is; unless it’s a tiny instance few people are paying much attention to the local feed anyway.

More and more I see incentivized tweets verified through the scraper route. I imagine tweet postings will similarly go through a more brittle bot based route.

The advantages of an open and easy to use API are to avoid these hackish solutions and to corral would be spammers and other purveyors of low-quality content into easy to monitor channels.

Charging for API access makes it harder to analyze would be spammers. While legitimate users of automatic posting like the author are further burdened by setting up their own bots.

That said, one of those API glue sites probably offers a still working RSS to tweet feature.

> Jetpack can’t auto-share to Mastodon yet.

Jetpack devs, please consider this a feature request.