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       Made a [[BMC]] page where some TO DO stuff will live.

     

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       How many times have I ended up using this [Jekyll JSON Feed Template](https://github.com/georgemandis/jekyll-json-feeds)? Many times! The special treatment for link front matter has me thinking.

     

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       How many times have I ended up using this [[JSON Feed#Jekyll JSON Feed Templates]]? Many times! The special treatment for link front matter has me thinking.

     

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       Decided to not mess with feed format right now. It's working, let's use it for a bit, and see how various things look once they cross-post through Micro.blog to Mastodon. Where it's actually putting content on my under-used [@boris@toolsforthought.social](https://toolsforthought.social/@boris) account.

     

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       - [ ] Journal feed: consider linking back to the actual journal entry. ~~Hmm, or maybe appending a hashtag like `BMCJournal` for context~~

     

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       - [ ] Journal feed: do tags-as-hashtags and append them

     

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       - [ ] Journal feed: do something special if link exists and append it

     

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       - [ ] Rewrite feeds as [[JSON Feed]] as that is what [[Micro.blog]] actually works with

     

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       link: https://www.jsonfeed.org/

     

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       tags:

     

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         - specification

     

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         - feeds

     

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         - JSON

     

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       github: https://github.com/manton/JSONFeed

     

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       [Announced May 2017](https://www.jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing-json-feed.html):

     

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       > We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs.

     

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       > So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to [RSS](http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html) and [Atom](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287) but in JSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work reading and publishing feeds.

     

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       The [spec is at version 1.1](https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/) as of August 2020.

     

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       ## Jekyll JSON Feed Templates

     

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       https://github.com/georgemandis/jekyll-json-feeds

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       It supports aggregating multiple different RSS or JSON Feeds and either importing them into your blog, or just merging them into your Micro.blog feed. 

     

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       ## Crossposting

     

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       Feeds can be cross-posted to different networks, including:

     

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       The specification of [how cross-posting is configured](https://help.micro.blog/t/cross-posting-to-twitter-medium-mastodon-and-more/85):[^twitter]

     

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       > - Short posts without a title, and less than 280 characters, will be sent to Twitter unmodified.

     

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       > - Posts with a title, regardless of length, will be sent to Twitter using the title and a link back to your microblog to read the full post.

     

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       > - Up to 4 photos embedded in a post are automatically downloaded and attached to your tweet. Photos should be larger than 200×200, to avoid accidentally cross-posting small buttons and tracking images that some blog systems include.

     

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       > Certain rules govern how your cross-posted content will appear. For example, on Mastodon:

     

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       > - Short posts without a title, and less than 500 characters, will be sent to Mastodon unmodified.

     

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       **Note:** It appears that only JSON Feed content works reliably. I have an [ongoing thread where Bluesky rich text isn't syndicating](https://help.micro.blog/t/feed-and-cross-posting-issues/2427), and apparently RSS vs JSON Feed appears to be the culprit.

     

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       Your Micro.blog account can also be activated as an [[ActivityPub]] account directly.