Jerod Santo

I joined the POSSE Party

Justin Searls quit social media by posting more. How, exactly, did he do that? By writing way too much Ruby code to cross-post his blog to all the social networks using an atom feed of his design.

POSSE is an old idea: publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. That’s desirable, for sure, but not always easy to accomplish.

POSSE Party is the new app Justin released so others can accomplish the same without all the work he went through.

I’m super lazy. So, last week I sat down, watched Justin’s Set up POSSE Party in 20 minutes, and followed all the steps. A few days later (lol, email delivery woes), I had my own instance up and running.

For now it’s just posting to Mastodon and X with super minimal settings, but I plan on adding more networks and customizing everything as time allows.