Automatic Archival Using EchoFeed

How I hack EchoFeed to archive (almost) everything to GitHub

This is how my feeds are set up right now. Update: status.lol posts cross-post directly to Mastodon.

Not sure if this is a good idea or a bad idea, but I’m trying it on for size.

Problem I’m trying to solve is archival of my microblog content—Mastodon posts, status.lol messages, and Flickr and blog announcements. I think the workflow shown here accomplishes all that without duplicating the blog content too much.

I’m going to live with it for a while and see how it goes.

Updates

April 24
- Finally got around to testing the Flickr feed and it’s working.
- Looks like images from Mastodon posts don’t end up in GitHub. Too bad about that.
- Since I hadn’t used status.lol in quite a while I forgot that it can cross-post directly to Mastodon. So I set that up and removed that EchoFeed.
April 23
- Tested posts to status.lol and that's working great, at least for basic (text only) posts. Haven’t tried markdown yet.