reading how indie bloggers want to syndicate to big media that consistently crushes their dreams is kinda wild
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
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#152I still feel RSS was the pinnacle. Of course it’s a personal preference, but I much prefer letting people pull my content than pushing it onto them.
It’s also a lot less wasteful and more respectful in my opinion. Scattering content everywhere in the hope others will see it doesn’t feel right to me.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on my own personal usage, it makes total sense that RSS feeds still get a surprising number of hits. I have a small collection of blogs that I follow and it's much easier to have them all loaded up in my RSS reader of choice than it is to regularly stop by each blog in my browser, especially for blogs that seldomly post (and are easy to forget about). Readers come with some nice bonus features, too. All of them…
Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?
Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
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#154One of the biggest steps down in Facebook history was their removal of RSS syndication. There was a time in the past when you could subscribe your Facebook account to external RSS feeds. The entries in those feeds would create new content on your "Facebook wall". This essentially let you use any third party that supported RSS to publish content into your Facebook feed. Facebook removed that feature. The effect of thi…
I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere. I guess that's why Discord is also locked down as much. They have community content that is inaccessible anywhere else but Discord.
I don't like this engineers vs. finance people / MBA divide that I see parroted a lot on HN. And obviously, it's parroted by engineers.
Like, all engineers are saints and the other side are all sinners. What crap. Get real, guys. There are all kinds of multicolored and multidimensional people.
Having been on all 3 or 4 or 5 of these sides :) (dev, sysadm, manager, consultant, ...), I have seen that.
Grow up, folks, and enjoy life in all its richness.
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#155Philosophically this is what we need more, but linkedin is absolutely tanking engagement for posts that have links.
Because it's not benefiting them in any way when users leave the website, especially to some 'unsafe/unapproved' website.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
He copied Snapchat and then Tiktok -- which have been most likely immensely positive for the bottom line.
Speaking personally, Reels are just annoying (not that I admire TikTok either, aligned as it probably is with the CCP) Snapchat features are blood money, they also result in less people using Snapchat Nobody says Zuck doesn't earn a lot of money but a lot of it is likely fraudulent and he's just not a very good person
Last phrase is understatement of the century.
He's a POS, that's also why POSSE is good. ;)
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#157Great to see this here. I’ve been using EchoFeed (https://echofeed.app) to syndicate articles from my blog to social media (it uses RSS as the feed source). I also recently learned about POSSEparty (https://posseparty.com) which has more options but is self hosted.
RSS most certainly isn’t dead either. I run pagecord.com (indie blogging app) and the majority of traffic is from a huge variety of feed readers.
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#158reading how indie bloggers want to syndicate to big media that consistently crushes their dreams is kinda wild
This is pertinent. I’ll get hundreds of page views a day on a blog post and if that’s syndicated to X it’ll get 55 views, never to be seen again despite having 1200 followers.
Focus on publishing your own work. Syndicate if it’s effortless, otherwise don’t worry about it.
Blogging lives! :)
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#159What 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
Can I shamelessly self-promote Pagecord? Free plan plus super-cheap premium plan with loads of features. Also source available so self-hostable (arguably cheaper to let me do it for you!). Export in full HTML or static-site friendly Markdown so you’re not trapped.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?
Same question, but for Android and desktop / laptop too. Never used RSS much before, hardly, in fact, I don't know why, even though I first knew about it many years ago, but after reading this thread, I want to.
I like RSS Guard a lot on desktop. It’s reasonably featureful, while being snappy and having options to slim down the interface.