John Johnston publisher

I think that one was posted directly on demo.rss.chat to let Matthias Pfefferle know how I was getting on.

Wonderful. Got this working on rss.chat. Post and comments from that post originated on my site.

pasted image, looks good in the editor.

rss chat is now simper to set up so I gave it a wee go on local host. So far I've just run it from my downloads folder. The instructions worked but I am a node-no-nothing so I tripped a couple of times.

First I didn't npm install so nothing worked.

I tried to set up SMTP using SendGrid, but I lost the will to live half way through. Got an API key but

Message failed: 550 The from address does not match a verified Sender Identity. Mail cannot be sent until this error is resolved. Visit https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/sender-identity/ to see the Sender Identity requirements

So I just copied the magicString from the terminal and constructed my own url:
http://localhost:1420/userconfirms?emailConfirmCode=ysugstk4yc

Which did the trick.

Ofcouse a localhost oneperson social network is not much use ;-) but interesting none the less.

Just saw the notice about the rss.chat example inboundRss for wordpress . I must say I hadn't thought about going that way. I had wondered about POSSE from WordPress to rss chat.

Currently micro.blog does a great job of posting items from my feed to mastodon and bluesky. I've also used FeedWordPress to pull rss feeds from one place to another.

Where inboundRSS differs is that it runs in a browser served from somewhere. The notes suggest it could site on a server or be served via node locally. I guess a simple php script could work too? inboundRss also updates edited items in real time (a few seconds).

I've run through the instructions, I had a bit of difficulty getting my site id, but got that from the WordPress.com API console using GET /me/sites/

I thimk the problem might be that my site is in a folder not at the top? I tried with a couple of other WordPress sites I run and the documented way worked for them.

Once I'd filled in the id and my demo.rss.chat feed I run the file with `php -S localhost:8081`

All I need today is do now is publish this post and it should also go onto my WordPress site. I'll check that and then test editing here by adding a link...

And it worked: Testing inboundRSS

I've now made several edits and they are reflected on my site. I put the php snippet for the terminal in backticks, they stayed as backticks on demo.rss.chat but were converted to code tags on my site.

I am now wondering what happens to edits on the WordPress side? If I added categories & tags? Enough for now though. Lots to think about!