Mostly POSSE

An overview of my social accounts and posting. It can be summarized as mostly POSSE.¹

This started as a short post to put directly into a single Mastodon post about my three Mastodon accounts, but kind of got out of hand, so now it’s a blog post.

• I use @boris@cosocial.ca as my main Mastodon account. It receives cross-posts from my personal blog. Food photos, local Vancouver adventures, travel.

• @boris@fission.social is my work account - decentralized compute @everywherecomputer@fission.social, IPFS and protocol discussions

• @boris@toolsforthought.social is hooked up to my journal posts. The journal items also get cross-posted to @bmannconsulting.com on Bluesky

My https://bmann.ca landing page links to all my social accounts², and @bmann.ca is also my Bluesky username.

I used Bluesky a lot in the early days, less so now. I’m more interested in ATProtocol than any particular network built with it, and am also interested in their DID based user ID system.

My third Bluesky account is for my FoodWiki and is @foodwiki.bmann.ca. For a change of pace, it has no automation and nothing cross posts to it! I hand post food pictures and recipes that I put on my FoodWiki. In part I made that a Bluesky account because many Mastodon users expect Content Warnings (CW) on things like food pictures.

I still have a Twitter account, but only use it for cross-posting to. The Twitter note page here also details my archive.

I have a Farcaster account and access that protocol through the Warpcast app.

Tech Blog posts I’m not auto cross posting. In part because they come across as just title plus link without any context in Micro.blog’s feed cross posting. Until I relaunched this site over the holidays, my long form tech blogging had effectively lapsed. We’ll see what the year brings!

Fedica is a commercial service that does cross posting that I’m experimenting with for sharing blog posts.

The Fedica model supports 8 accounts even at the free account tier, which is great! But, even at paid tiers, you can only use one account per network, so right away it doesn’t support my three Mastodon accounts. And yeah, I have a pile of company and project accounts I run for work on the Fission Mastodon Server.

There’s a whole other discussion to be had here about the affordances of each network³ that fights against cross-posting. No hashtags on Bluesky or Micro.blog. No quote posting on Mastodon. And different character count lengths and embedding support.

I’ll continue to experiment across many different networks, servers, and protocols. I’ll produce feeds from here.

I’ll look to own my accounts and data, and continue pooling capital and collaboration to work with others.