Illustration of AI-assisted POSSE automation, featuring a glowing lightbulb with a brain-shaped filament at the center, symbolizing AI. Surrounding it are icons for RSS, blogging, Micro.blog, and Sharkey, arranged on a dark blue background in a modern, tech-inspired style.


I’ve written extensively about how AI has changed the way I interact with computers and brought my ideas to life. Let me restate something I’ve said before: I’m not a software developer. But I do have ideas—and I’ve always wished I could bring them to life. Well, thanks to AI, that’s starting to happen.

I recently started a Sharkey instance for myself. Honestly, I like it better than Mastodon. But I’m not quite ready to give Mastodon up entirely, and I wanted my blog posts to automatically be shared on Sharkey. When I post to my blog on Micro.blog, it uses POSSE (Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)—but Sharkey isn’t included in that.

So AI helped me fix that with n8n. I set up several workflows so that when I post to my website, the RSS feed is monitored by n8n using the workflow shown below. It took a bit of effort—and the help of two AIs.

n8n workflow for posting from Micro.blog to Sharkey, showing a schedule trigger, HTTP request, formatting code, and final post to Sharkey.
Micro.blog to Shareky n8n work flow.


Funny thing: I subscribe to both Claude AI and ChatGPT, and I often pit them against each other as a sanity check. Since I can’t verify the code myself with confidence, I compare their answers. And when they disagree, I paste both responses into Perplexity or Google’s Gemini to get a broader consensus on the best solution.

In this case, Claude got me about 98% of the way there—but I ran into a formatting issue. So I dropped the whole thing into ChatGPT, and it immediately identified the problem, fixed it, and now my Sharkey posts look just like they came from Micro.blog.

Now I have a similar workflow for this Scribbles site:

  • One less node.
  • Atom feed instead of JSON.
n8n workflow for posting from Scribbles to Sharkey, using an RSS feed trigger with code and formatting steps before sending to Sharkey.
Scribbles to Sharkey n8n workflow.


Without AI, it would’ve taken me a year to figure this out on my own. Honestly, if it weren’t for AI, I probably never would’ve discovered Micro.blog, Scribbles, or anything else—I’d still be stuck on WordPress, struggling to figure it out (which, for some reason, never clicked with me, even after nearly a decade of trying).

AI has been like a private tutor for me. I had always wanted to self-host using a Raspberry Pi, but never managed to start—until now. AI is truly making life better for me.

Sure, I see the gloom-and-doom predictions about jobs being replaced by AI. But that’s not what this post is about. I just wanted to share how I’ve enhanced POSSE for my site with the help of AI.


👉 Follow me on Sharkey: michael@mitchelltribe.rodeo


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