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Post by casualscience »

theshrike79 wrote: post #246
casualscience wrote: post #60

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These are impressive metrics, are you able to make a living off of your 10M views? I'm planning to leave my job this year and focus on content, mostly have been considering YouTube, but if blogging can work too, might consider that as well

Making a living on "content" is really hard, subscribers or views don't turn directly into income. At some point you're getting sponsors to pay for it and then it get complicated.

Yeah I hear you. My understanding is that on youtube you can make ~2k per 1M views with the default ads. I'm hoping that I can be funded by some combination of that and something like patreon/membership/merch. But we will see, it's something I've wanted to do for years and I am getting too old to put off longer.

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Post by pwdisswordfishy »

acessoproibido wrote: post #27

I really want to implement this, but i havent been able to figure out how to do it for Instagram (the only social media that is really relevant in my friend circle) and whatsapp/signal groups other than doing it manually. If anyone has tips, especially for Insta let me know...

Here's a tip: don't bother doing this. Go PESOS instead. One way to do it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482285

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Post by pwdisswordfishy »

rsolva wrote: post #163
pastel8739 wrote: post #129

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I wish there was a way to plug in Fedi hosting with a static site generator, but iirc the protocol currently doesn’t allow that

For basic functionality, it is possible! https://paul.kinlan.me/adding-activity-pub-to-your-static-si...

> You can't just output a feed of posts and be done (I tried) - so even if you are a statically generated site you need a Server component ... My implementation uses Hugo to create my posts and feed data, Vercel Serverless functions to handle in bound messages, and Firebase Firestore to store the data.

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Post by domysee »

ungreased0675 wrote: post #76
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #68

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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?

I wrote an article about the different kinds of feed readers and listing a bunch, maybe that's useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive

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Post by judah »

lylo wrote: post #157

Great 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.

Nifty, but I see they don't support Facebook or X? That's a showstopper for a lot of people, including me.

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Post by searls »

yunesj wrote: post #229

I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms. I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case. Which direction would you go in?

FWIW, "write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media" is exactly what I built POSSE Party to do. All your site needs is an Atom feed to read from https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party/blob/main/docs/feed....

https://justin.searls.co/atom.xml gets flung to 8 social accounts

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Post by Avamander »

threetonesun wrote: post #44
ronbenton wrote: post #41

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RSS is my preferred way to consume blog posts. I also find blogs that have an RSS feed to be more interested in actually writing interesting content rather than just trying to get views/advertise. I guess this makes sense—hard to monetize views through an RSS reader

It's funny back in the Google Reader days monetizing via RSS was quite common. You'd publish the truncated version to RSS and force someone to visit the site for the whole version, usually just in exchange for ad views. Honestly while it wasn't the greatest use of RSS it was better than most paid blogs today being ad-wall pop-up pay-gate nightmares of UX.

Even the short snippets are better if one wants to aggregate interesting topics and then read what seems interesting. Not just endlessly scroll each site individually.

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Post by randoglando »

zero_shift wrote: post #183

A problem I would like to see solved, is how I can post something on my site first, but still use BlueSky as a commenting platform. I guess it could just be done as a multi phase post, as janky as that is.

I have this set up on my blog www.ashwinmenon.com

You can inspect and see the JS. There are a few others doing this too!

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Post by basilikum »

krapp wrote: post #215
basilikum wrote: post #214

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Facebook came after FaceSmash, a site for rating the attractiveness of women at Harvard who did not consent to being put on the site with photos. He was always like this and never intended to create something actually valuable.

The problem is, despite all of the slop and garbage and surveillance and everything, Facebook is still actually valuable for many people. People use it to keep in contact with relatives and friends, I follow work groups, my mother took COPD therapy through Facebook and chatted with relatives in other countries. I think Hacker News has been so radicalized against social media and "algorithms" that they forget most peo…

You are right that a lot of people use social media for good things. The problem is that these usages are orthogonal to what these platforms are designed for and the reason why people use them for that anyway is mostly not for the value they provide but due to the network effects they have achieved though their market capture. On the technical side these are all long solved problems and many others could provide a platform for actually connecting real people. Facebook and etc. are parasitically absorbing this markets while actively undermining any healthy activity they platform.

> most people's relationship with social media is entirely mundane.

I think the engagement numbers of the social media platforms say something different. They wouldn't keep feeding everyone all that toxic stew if it didn't work with most people.

The large social media platforms are hostile to actual social activity.

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Post by lylo »

judah wrote: post #255
lylo wrote: post #157

Great 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.

Nifty, but I see they don't support Facebook or X? That's a showstopper for a lot of people, including me.

I think posse party does but not via API (because $$$) - presume it uses other tricks to do this.
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