I have been thinking about sharing posts from this blog to Mastodon, but I did not want to share them from my personal Mastodon account. I would rather keep blog updates separate from content that I toot directly to Mastodon.
A “sub-timeline” for my personal Mastodon account would work well enough if they actually existed. But they don’t, so the next best thing is to have a dedicated account for blog updates. It turns out that RSS Parrot fits my needs perfectly here, where it provides a dedicated account for an RSS feed with updates posted to the timeline and nothing else.
So the blog now has its own account at @blog.chungyc.org@rss-parrot.net. It is technically not a Mastodon account, but the distinction is moot for the purpose of providing updates to Mastodon followers.