Yikes, my #SocialMedia flow diagram is woefully out of date. It has been awhile since I updated it.
Here's the latest (but not last) version with fresh numbers, but looking at it now, I see some problems.
While I still am connected to folks on work social media (the ones I maintain to share work resources through) like Linked In, #Facebook / #Instagram, #Twitter, sharing content once to many social media outlets is still difficult.
IFTTT and Twitter are still at the center of it all and it doesn't play nice with Mastodon as far as I can tell. The Toot Bookmarklet with moa.party cross-poster has proven invaluable in cutting out #IFTTT and #GetPocket, but what I wish was a simple RSS feed to Mastodon, then Mastodon to #LinkedIn, #Facebook, etc.
Of course, this is cross-posting blasphemy on #Mastodon, but posting once and seeing it go everywhere else frees up time for more conversation while meeting people where they are, not where I think they SHOULD be.
Anyone else having fun with this kind of thing?
I think the cross-posting blasphemy mostly bothers people when it's done in a "set it and forget it" way, where the person doesn't interact with the platform other than in this automated form. (There are people now who'd take issue with any cross-posting at all, but I don't think they're a majority.)
I don't grasp this flow diagram fully though. Does this mean every post of yours goes through Pocket? Or is this only for some bookmarks/things you quote from websites or your feed reader etc.? What does the Toot Bookmarklet do (I haven't come across it before)?
@digital_carver Toot Bookmarklet works great, turning websites you want to share on Mastodon easy. More here: https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/a-toot-bookmarklet-for-mastodon.html
As to Pocket, anything saved there is shared via Twitter.