Hi there
I recently tried getting cross posting from Glass working, and had partial success.
I added my glass RSS feed in, choosing “Add posts to Micro.blog timeline” and authorised mastodon as a cross-posting destination. I’m assuming “Add posts to Micro.blog timeline” is purely that, and the other option is essentially “add post to my microblog blog” with whatever settings that has regarding showing up on the timeline.
Has anyone managed to get an external RSS feed to publish to the MBTimeline and cross post out to other services like Mastodon? Should I just remove the Glass feed and try adding it again?
That sounds like a bug. Unfortunately the “exception” log isn’t very helpful, but I expect there is something unique about the Glass feed that is tripping up Micro.blog. I’ll try to reproduce it.
I can’t tell what was happening, but I’ve improved the logging to be more detailed if this happens again. Now that the post is no longer new, it’s not going to keep trying to cross-post it, so the best way forward from here is probably to wait until you post to Glass again and see if it works correctly.
I’m not aware of any specific Mastodon cross-posting issues. I know a bunch of people are using it.
Thanks @manton much appreciated. Very weirdly I just tried posting three more pics (example) and all went through without a hitch now, but I swear I didn’t do anything different. Who knows!! Thanks again.
Wait, the cross-posting options show up for an external RSS feed when you chose to “add posts to the Micro.blog timeline”? They don’t when you choose “import posts to blog”. I’m still learning new things about Micro.blog crossposting.
Importing is a batch, one time, don’t flood the zone thing. RSS → Timeline = normal flow as though you’re posting yourself into the timeline, cross posting functions through there.
