Own your work
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Own your work
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#2For posterity, use a platform where you own your work.
For broadcasting, use platforms you don’t own but where people are.
Use one or both depending on your goals.
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#3The best solution is what the Indieweb folks called POSSE: Publish on your Own Site , Syndicate Elsewhere:
For instance, I might publish a clip on my own site first, then mirror it to places like YouTube, TikTok and Reddit so more people find it. Or post an article on my own site first, then repost it on Medium and Substack (with a canonical saying my own version is the original if possible).
That way you're not tied to a specific platform, and can just find another place to share/post your work if any of them go to hell.
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#4love this. started to publish things on my personal site almost 10 years ago http://podviaznikov.com.
I changed publishing tools so many times, but all the content still lives on the same domain name and I try to support same URLs.
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#5That's what I do, because: too many to choose from, not enough flexibility. And hosting anything with server-side rendering like Wordpress does not bring too much benefits.
Solution: Markdown in Git -> HTML -> Firebase Hosting over own domain (easy to migrate and replace)
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#6love this. started to publish things on my personal site almost 10 years ago http://podviaznikov.com . I changed publishing tools so many times, but all the content still lives on the same domain name and I try to support same URLs.
I like your style of post titles: short, lowercase, concise
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#7What is old is new again
This was basically the only option in the early 90s before geocities etc... So most of us who were on the web in the 90s did exactly that. Difference was, when you turned your computer off for the night, your site was down
If you were really fancy you had a dedicated T1 line, but those were for rich people only
I've been on my own domain for well over a decade and my CI process hasn't changed from "drag and drop a .html file written in notepad onto a BSD private-colo server via WinSCP"
Literally never fails and my kb size pages don't crush anything.
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#8I host my own domain on my own server in my own home. It obviously isn't the easiest option, but there are a lot of options. I could pay a bit extra to Wordpress to get them to host my blog with my own domain. Or I could host a Wordpress blog somewhere else, or even just static HTML files.
Actually I try to do both. I have started working on a static hand made homepage in addition to my blog. But whatever the approach, I still have to produce the actual content. Sometimes I feel that is the hardest part.
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#9I own my work, but about 90% of my traffic comes from Google. This is something I try not to think about too much.
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#10I own my work, but about 90% of my traffic comes from Google. This is something I try not to think about too much.
If it makes you feel any better, a more significant portion may come from Bing/OpenAI's way soon.