Auto-post your published articles to Mastodon

Checks your public RSS feed every ten minutes and automatically posts new articles to Mastodon.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Repeats recheck feed after interval; runs once per each new article found.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

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Mastodon

The problem it solves

You publish new content and then have to remember to separately announce it on Mastodon. If you forget, or you're busy, that channel just goes quiet even though your content keeps coming out.

Who it fits

A blogger, publisher, or news site that wants their Mastodon account to stay active without manual posting.

How it works

  1. Every ten minutes, the system checks your public RSS feed
  2. It looks for any newly published articles
  3. It posts a toot on your Mastodon account for each new article
What you get

Articles that appear on Mastodon on their own

You get every new article you publish automatically posted to your Mastodon account, keeping your presence active without any extra effort.

What you get

A Mastodon feed that automatically stays current with your latest published articles.

What you need

A Mastodon account with an access token and a public RSS feed.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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