Publishing posts to Mastodon

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This topic covers publishing posts from Discourse to Mastodon with the Discourse ActivityPub Plugin, and follows on from Setting up an ActivityPub Actor and Following an ActivityPub Actor. If you’re not sure what this means, head on over to the Discourse ActivityPub Plugin topic first.

Instructions

To publish to Mastodon:

  1. Set up an actor for the Category or Tag you want to publish content to Mastodon.
  2. Copy the “handle” of the Actor.
  3. Look up the handle on Mastodon and follow it.

[note] markup

You can select part of your post to be published via ActivityPub by wrapping text in [note][/note]. This gives you more control over what appears on microblogging services like Mastodon. For example, if your post looks like this in the composer:

We have some exciting news to share: [note]Everything Pets is launching a magazine![/note]

This will appear on Mastodon:

Everything Pets is launching a magazine!

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Hi, currently the posts by actors on Mastodon seem to miss a profile picture, which makes them look meh:

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Is it possible to either use the avatar of the Discourse user posting, or at least the Discourse instance small logo?

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