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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by nicbou »

moultano wrote: post #134

A related idea that I'd like to see more people do. If you have 10-20 tweets on a subject, plug the holes and turn them into an essay on the real internet. My first step in writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452763 was to copy a bunch of tweets into a doc. Micro blogging is a great way to brainstorm and iterate on your thoughts over time, but eventually you have enough material to graduate from micro blog…

I started POSSE microblogging. My website has an “etc.” section for tweet-like posts. It relieved the pressure to create HN-worthy posts every time. It also gives me a place to share art and links.

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Post by nicbou »

askvictor wrote: post #123

What blog systems (either self hosted or easy to move) do folks recommend nowadays? I'm not interested in spending much time tinkering and updating, but have enough sysadmin experience to host one myself. Was last using blogger, though trying to de-googlify my life slowly

A single-binary static site generator would be my approach now. You can trust it to run in a few years.

I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional website and Wordpress on the personal one.

The benefit of SSGs is that the technical effort is tied to publishing. Once it’s online it stays online. You have both the human-readable source content and the static site. With traditional CMS there is a constant effort required to keep the website running. My dockerized Craft website wouldn’t start on the first few tries after a year offline.

SSGs are fantastic for building long-lasting websites with a low maintenance burden.

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Post by bandrami »

alex1138 wrote: post #117
sehugg wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2011. This in my memory is the year of the industry-wide vibe shift from open APIs to walled gardens/cesspools.

Speaking of industry wide shift, how many companies has FB fucked up by proxy? I refer to the video metrics scandal. How many video autoplay and other things has everyone felt obliged to copy because Zuckerberg (who seems to care about nobody) made FB into a fradulent company?

Remember when Facebook was an application development platform? And people built businesses on that, and then they just kind of stopped allowing that? Good times.

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Post by nicbou »

softwaredoug wrote: post #36

I am not so sure. You need to speak in the native voice of each community. A LinkedIn post vs Tweet vs E-Mail are different. You need to get value from the network directly without expecting a click thru. A lot of engagement + authority happens via the network itself I think it's more accurate to see blogging as a distinct channel from other types of social media + content marketing

I can confirm. I post across 5 platforms and each has its own regulars and its own vibe. The tone of my posts is slightly different on each.

The general idea for me is that I crosspost short messages about what I am current working on, but the actual finished product is self-hosted. Deleting any of the accounts will not result in lost information.

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Post by manuelmoreale »

askvictor wrote: post #123

What blog systems (either self hosted or easy to move) do folks recommend nowadays? I'm not interested in spending much time tinkering and updating, but have enough sysadmin experience to host one myself. Was last using blogger, though trying to de-googlify my life slowly

I know this doesn’t answer your question specifically but it might help: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms

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Post by ryu2k2 »

>syndicate elsewhere

That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.

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Post by ricardobeat »

ryu2k2 wrote: post #147

>syndicate elsewhere That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.

Why would you get shadow banned? You think the format or backlinks would trigger bot detection systems?

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Post by ricardobeat »

stogot wrote: post #43
theturtletalks wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does Buffer[0] operate then? Even an open-source alternative to Buffer, Postiz[1], offers Instagram. 0. https://buffer.com 1. https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app

Wasn’t Buffer something else in the past? Did they pivot?

It’s been about scheduling social media posts since at least 2012, seems to have grown into a whole content management suite.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by ryu2k2 »

ricardobeat wrote: post #148
ryu2k2 wrote: post #147

>syndicate elsewhere That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.

Why would you get shadow banned? You think the format or backlinks would trigger bot detection systems?

I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again.

When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.

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