If you are wondering why WordPress posts aren’t auto-shared, here is another PSA for the Aniblogosphere. This is probably a time to move on from Twitter and look at the fediverse. I will share some reasons why. Twitter changed its API policy in February to force developers to pay for API access. However, with Enterprise …
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