Confused About Mastodon And The New Fediverse Address We Get

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  dtpiixart · Member · Oct 15, 2023 at 3:42 am

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  Hi all!

  So I am working on my Pad53.com site (just recently bought this domain here). I have created a Mastodon account for it at https://mastodon.social/@Pad53 and I have also gone into my Connections settings and connected my blog to this Mastodon account so that each post I publish will go there.

  Here is where I’m confused. I also went to the Discussion settings for “enter the fediverse” and created this (email visible only to moderators and staff) address. Is this address only to be used for giving to people who may want to follow my blog on Mastodon using that, and/but does this now also publish my posts to Mastodon (like on the federated timeline, and not just to my personal Mastodon page)?

  Somehow I feel like using the second method may be redundant to the first method since all of my posts are set up to publish automatically, and people could just folllow my actual Mastodon page. If they only use the first method to follow however, I’m guessing any comments they may make won’t appear on my blog like the 2nd method is supposed to do?

  Maybe I’m thinking too hard lol?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  pfefferle · Staff · Oct 16, 2023 at 8:05 am

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  Hi @dtpiixart

  you summed it up perfectly and you understood it properly.

  The first option is a Cross-Poster, that means every post will published using an existing Mastodon Account and that means that the conversation that might start under this Cross-Posting will only happen on Mastodon.

  The second option makes your Blog a Mastodon compatible account, other can follow your Blog directly and the conversation will be back-federated, so that you can see all replies in your comments section.

  Both options have there pros and cons, so it is up to you and your preferred use case. But it’s also an option to simply run both versions and to let your visitors choose, what they prefer.

  I hope this helps :)