Post #2994218

2026-05-03 16:13 UTC

@wdlindsy@toad.social I would add to all the great tips provided above, that in your case you could benefit from having a duplicate posting on a blog, which could be your own website, or hosted by a third party (wordpress, substack, others...). This would allow readers at any time to go back and find a great post you wrote in the past, like curating & linking to other people's writing. If you host your own, you will always have an uncensored mirror or archive of whatever you published on Mastodon.

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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2026-05-03 21:08

@clusterfcku@mastodon.social Thank you. I did once keep a blog for years, then stopped blogging as I got to a "ripe" age and relied on Twitter for the kind of communicating I aimed at with a blog. When Musk took over Twitter, I wasn't about to remain there, and the day he took the helm, I deleted my Twitter account and looked for a Mastodon instance to continue what I'd been doing on Twitter.

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@DrPen@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 05:16

@clusterfcku@mastodon.social @wdlindsy@toad.social hey, just wanted to say in case this might be useful. A great way of duplicating posts in Mastodon is to use their RSS and archive it. This wont capture threads (responses to posts) but will capture each single post. I archive my acct using Obsidian. I wrote a blogpost about the procedure a while back. https://penworks.net/blog/importing-feeds-into-obsidian-with-simple-rss

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