justin․searls․co

POSSE Pulse

Last updated June 20th, 2025

Like a lot of the Ruby programming community (and despite having a real blue checkmark and over 20,000 followers), in late 2022 I migrated from Twitter to Mastodon for all my tweet-like needs. And then Threads. And then Bluesky. But the truth is you can't go home again, and gone are the days of having a single central source of "what's happening" online the way we used to with Twitter.

After deciding social media was no longer where I wanted to socialize, I started cobbling together a collection of tools to enable me to syndicate content from a single site (this one, justin.searls.co). This is kinda sorta what the POSSE movement espouses, but I chose to prioritize ad hoc integrations that actually work over idealistic, generally-unsupported protocols like ActivityPub and Webmention. Eventually, I consolidated all of those ad hoc scripts and Docker containers running on my Synology into a single Rails app called POSSE Party.

Syndication from a single authoritative web site means I can own my work and present it however I want, while still meeting people wherever they prefer to consume content—whether that's an RSS client, a social network timeline, or an e-mail inbox. For more context, I talked about the journey I've been on in the last ~30 minutes of this interview with Jerod Santo on the Changelog.

The POSSE I've gathered so far

To date, this site's syndication strategies connect justin.searls.co to:

If none of these work for you and you want to follow my nonsense some other way, let me know, I guess?