Ah got it. I went back and read your 'hacking sstv' web page. One answer is to just write a program that tunes your SDR to the band where the SSTV images are being transmitted, capture the transmission and decode them and then post them to the Fediverse. That all works fine on a headless RasPi with an SDR dongle and an internet connection.
It's interesting that few do it this way.
Chuck
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