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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by j45 »

doodlesdev wrote: post #2

This strategy is an alternative to PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site) [0]. I really like this read on the indieweb website, it explains well why adopt this strategy for federation and emphasizes that "Friends are more important than federation", something a lot of nerds and hackers forget when defending their ideals. [0]: https://indieweb.org/PESOS

POSSE offers a single source of truth the owner owns, vs PESOS which has multiple source of truth not owned by the owner if it's an external site.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by vegabook »

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.

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Post by dingnuts »

vegabook wrote: post #15

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 al…

I understand this attitude but when I look back at my rural youth I just hear you telling me that I should have had no one to talk to at all about many things.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater

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Post by torh »

vegabook wrote: post #15

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 al…

I read this as an ownership issue, where Meta owns your content as long as you post on Facebook or Instagram, and has nothing to do with LLMs.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by Zaskoda »

We followed this practice at a Non-Profit I volunteered for some years ago. For us, it was motivated by a few reasons:

- we trained the community around us to look to our website first for the most recent news and information

- we did not want a social media platform to be able to cut us off from our community (on purpose or accident) by shuttering accounts or groups

- we did not want to require our users have accounts on any 3rd party platforms in order to access our postings

- but we still wanted to distribute our messaging across any platforms where large groups of our community members frequently engaged

Another aspect of our process that was specific to our situation and outside of POSSE - we only posted one topic/issue/announcement per blog post. We had a news letter that would summarize each of these. Many organizations like ours would post summaries of many things to a single blog post, basically the same as the newsletter. However, this was cumbersome. For example, if someone in the community had a question, it was much clearer to link to a single post on our site that answered the question AND ONLY answered that question. It made for much better community engagement, better search engine indexing, cleaner content management, and just a better experience for everyone involved.

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