Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

Don't most social platforms tank reach if you add a link to your post or as a first comment?

It’s almost like HN is a great platform for the POSSE model!

Awesome share thanks for the link. Will send to a family member who is looking to gain viewership with their writing - they usually post on medium I think.

Is it really worked as Broadcast on other Blogs

This is my approach and I fully recommend it. My personal website is my canonical home address on the web. It has outlived a few platforms and many rounds of enshittification.

A few caveats:

- You will have different communities on each social network. Your personal website might be home to you, but to your users, it's not. You're just another creator on their platform of choice.

- Each community has its own vibe, and commands slightly different messaging. This is partly due to the format each platform allows. Each post will create parallel but different conversations.

- Dumping links is frowned upon. You should be a genuine participant in each community, even if you just repost the same stuff. Automation does not help much there.

- RSS and newsletters are the only audiences that you control, and they're worth growing. Everywhere else, people who explicitly want to follow you might never see your updates.

- You should own the domain you post to. This is your address on the internet, and it should stay yours

- People do check your personal website. I was surprised to hear friends and acquaintances refer to things I post on my website.

IndieWeb: a blast from the past!

How do we deal with the fact that billionaires’ social media platforms reduce the reach of posts with links? Will we always have our posts throttled?

How do you fellow HN'ers separate their online with their corporate identity and day job?

I cannot rid myself of the suspicion that your average boss is going to have a prying eye on your online activities and may even use them against you one way or another e.g. if you offer services/work on side projects that may in any way may compete w/ your employer.

Anyone got experience to share in that regard?

Thinking about this famous precedent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195#27425041

What’s the ideal tooling for this for videos?

I've been doing this for years with my site, and it's brought me a lot of joy that I can go back and search my site for various posts I've made over the last decade across all the platforms I use - I have a more high friction setup, but that's because of my own terrible choices

Receiving webmentions can be as simple as making a custom log in nginx and just having it save all POST to the webmention URL endpoint. I love it. And sending can be done with curl or whatever you want (ie html forms without JS).

Or, you can use any of the many community projects which handle all this backend stuff and provide it as a service.

Either extreme works. I love the indieweb set of protocols for this. Other things like ActivityPub require active interaction for the cryptographic handshake at a minimum and make simple solutions infeasible despite other benefits. Indieweb can be as complex or as simple as you want.

is it really working ?

seems like the rate at which everything is going, websites may soon be dead.

If only HN had been doing this almost since it's inception. Oh wait.

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This post like many recent ones like it, essentially wants the internet to go backwards to what it once was pre-LLMs [edit: and pre-concentration]. I'd like to suggest that you should follow through and go all the way to pre-internet itself, and rediscover handwriting, in-person local meeting groups, non-digital relationships, and using your hands not on a keyboard. Today I (with difficulty) left my macbook closed all day until this evening (and this comment). Small steps.

POSSE can be applied to more than just social networks, it can be used to disrupt every marketplace!

In fact, I’m building open source SaaS for every vertical and leveraging that to build an interoperable, decentralized marketplace.

Social media is a marketplace as well. The good being sold is people’s content and the cost you pay is with your attention. The marketplace’s cut is ads and selling your data.