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title: In Pursuit of the POSSE Pipedresm
date: 2024-11-29T14:55:21-05:00
permalink: /posse-pipedream/
tags:
- tinkering
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Some months back, I set up the ability to push new blog posts (or at least summaries thereof) to [my hcommons.social account](https://hcommons.social/@kfitz), using a service called [Mastofeed](https://mastofeed.org). Now that I find myself using [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/kfitz.info) at least a bit, I wanted to think about how it might fit into my workflows.
I'm a big fan of the [IndieWeb POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) mode of publishing here at kfitz.info (thereby owning my content) and syndicating that content elsewhere. Mastofeed helped me do that, but it's of course Mastodon-specific. After a little searching around I ran across [this blog post by Raymond Camden](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/11/05/automatically-posting-to-bluesky-on-new-rss-items), detailing how he used [Pipedream](https://pipedream.com) to push new blog posts to Bluesky. The post includes a link to [his prior use of Pipedream to do the same for Mastodon and Twitter](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2022/12/06/automatically-posting-to-mastodon-and-twitter-on-new-rss-items), so I decided to see if I could build a single workflow that (1) listens to [my RSS feed](https://kfitz.info/feed/feed.xml) for new posts, (2) extracts the key stuff (in this case, the post title and link) from it, and (3) passes it to both Mastodon and Bluesky.
Pipedream is nowhere near as no-/low-code as the long-lamented Yahoo Pipes, but it's pretty amazing nonetheless, and provides great [documentation](https://pipedream.com/docs) for the many, many things you can build with it. There was a pre-built step for Mastodon posting, so that was easy peasy, but Bluesky required a bit of coding to connect with its API (which is also [pretty well documented](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/get-started)). After a few [minorly amusing missteps](https://bsky.app/profile/kfitz.info/post/3lc4crk4laj25), I've now got a workflow up and running that should allow me to publish this post and have notifications about it go out to both hcommons.social and Bluesky within a few minutes.
Now to go about the having-thoughts-worth-sharing part of the endeavor.