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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by jonasced »

echelon wrote: post #23
simonw wrote: post #9

I really like this philosophy. I've been using it for a couple of years now - everything goes on my personal site, then I post links on Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter and sometimes (if I remember to do so) LinkedIn, plus copy and paste it all into a Substack email every week or so. I really need to automate it though - hard on Twitter and LinkedIn but still pretty easy for Bluesky and Mastodon.

If we had stuck with standard semantic web microformats, RSS/Atom syndication, FOAF-ish graphs, URIs for identity but also anonymous pubkey identities with reputation graphs - we could have built an entirely distributed social media graph that worked like email. But alas, Facebook pushed forward too fast to counter. There's still a chance, but the software needs to focus on simplicity and ease of use. Publishing blob…

I agree! Do you know why anonymous pubkey identities with reputation graphs didn't stick, or any examples of it being used today? In my head that would solve one or two of the problems I see with the modern internet.

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Post by notme43 »

noisy_boy wrote: post #167

Because RSS readers are coming up in comments, if you are using one, which one would you recommend? For Linux AND Android?

Feeder on Android is my pick. Thunderbird does RSS, and I already use it for email, so it's a nice all in one on Linux. Both can use OPML files to import/export your feeds.

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Post by pmdr »

fuzztester wrote: post #156
alex1138 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

Last phrase highlights what investors care about. I personally hate reels and tiktok -- they should've stopped at stories.

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Post by rednafi »

rambambram wrote: post #162
rednafi wrote: post #93

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Fair criticism. I'm trying to find a way to present that without being obnoxious.

I think you did just fine. The orange can be very obnoxious indeed, and just the icon is more than enough for people actually looking for it. PS: I found out I was already subscribed to your feed.

Thanks for the sub :)

Yeah, the idea was that since RSS is still considered niche by the broader audience, those who are looking for it will probably find it just fine.

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Post by rednafi »

uhoh-itsmaciek wrote: post #131
rednafi wrote: post #93

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Fair criticism. I'm trying to find a way to present that without being obnoxious.

Maybe a rounded border? I agree it's too subtle as is. Also, your Segal's Law link seems to have an encoding issue with the apostrophe.

Yeah rounded border seems like a good idea.

Also, weird, seems like I don't see the encoding issue on the segal's law.

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Post by renegat0x0 »

susam wrote: post #37

Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1] From the referer (sic) data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but s…

Also curated list of rss sources

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-feeds

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Post by alex1138 »

pmdr wrote: post #173
fuzztester wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last phrase is understatement of the century. He's a POS, that's also why POSSE is good. ;)

Last phrase highlights what investors care about. I personally hate reels and tiktok -- they should've stopped at stories.

To me it just validates the history of Facebook

Did he/didn't he steal? Dunno, though there's a fair few bits of evidence in the various lawsuits (Winklevoss, Greenspan)

But if you didn't know about any of that you could make some inferences. Like his neverending "ooh, shiny new thing, want" (and then lie to people along the way, trick Indians into signing up for your internet.org thing)

I was willing to take his side on a few things because the political situation is genuinely unclear and the public has been misled but then right after he wrote the open letter to Jim Jordan about censorship coercion (which was a real problem, I want to see more tech companies talking about it) he does this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651178

It's kind of like he has raw bits of intelligence but doesn't quite know how to piece it together and besides "his" inventions (even FB) are put together (largely?!) by other people

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Post by rane »

lazarus01 wrote: post #102
eleventen wrote: post #98

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What features did you want for your personal site that lead to choosing Django (or a backend framework at all) instead of a static site generator?

I just wanted to learn how to create an enterprise grade web application. I read a book on Django last year and did a few tutorials and enjoyed it. I also deploy infra on gcp and it works well there. It cost about $60/month for baseline hosting with light traffic/storage. I will probably use it for an interface for some of my ml projects. I was also looking into dart/flutter a much steeper learning curve for me perso…

$60/mo for a personal website is insane.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by fuzztester »

alex1138 wrote: post #177
pmdr wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last phrase highlights what investors care about. I personally hate reels and tiktok -- they should've stopped at stories.

To me it just validates the history of Facebook Did he/didn't he steal? Dunno, though there's a fair few bits of evidence in the various lawsuits (Winklevoss, Greenspan) But if you didn't know about any of that you could make some inferences. Like his neverending "ooh, shiny new thing, want" (and then lie to people along the way, trick Indians into signing up for your internet.org thing) I was willing to take his sid…

>But if you didn't know about any of that you could make some inferences. Like his neverending "ooh, shiny new thing, want" (and then lie to people along the way, trick Indians into signing up for your internet.org thing)

Yeah, that trying to trick Indians into that thing (IIRC, it was also called Free Basics or something like, to sound attractive, prolly) became a big issue in India at the time, I remember, although I didn't delve deep into the matter. I think a group of leading Indian freedom activists took on FB in the media and petitioned the government, and it resulted in the whole scheme collapsing.

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