Comment by Fiveplus
3 days ago
The concept is sound, but the syndicate part is becoming increasingly hostile to maintain. I used to have scripts that auto-posted to twitter, facebook and reddit. Over the last two years, almost all of those broke due to API paywalls or aggressive bot detection.
I've found that "POSSE" is shifting more toward "Publish on Own Site, Manually Link Elsewhere."
Paradoxically, ActivityPub (mastodon/fediverse) is the only place where true automated syndication is still reliable. I think the future of POSSE isn't trying to hack together API keys for walled gardens, but treating your personal site as a fedi instance so the syndication is native.
I wish there was a way to plug in Fedi hosting with a static site generator, but iirc the protocol currently doesn’t allow that
For basic functionality, it is possible! https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-si...
> You can't just output a feed of posts and be done (I tried) - so even if you are a statically generated site you need a Server component ... My implementation uses Hugo to create my posts and feed data, Vercel Serverless functions to handle in bound messages, and Firebase Firestore to store the data.