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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by jdthedisciple »

How do you fellow HN'ers separate their online with their corporate identity and day job?

I cannot rid myself of the suspicion that your average boss is going to have a prying eye on your online activities and may even use them against you one way or another e.g. if you offer services/work on side projects that may in any way may compete w/ your employer.

Anyone got experience to share in that regard?

Thinking about this famous precedent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195#27425041

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

#52

Post by sailorganymede »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #51

How do you fellow HN'ers separate their online with their corporate identity and day job? I cannot rid myself of the suspicion that your average boss is going to have a prying eye on your online activities and may even use them against you one way or another e.g. if you offer services/work on side projects that may in any way may compete w/ your employer. Anyone got experience to share in that regard? Thinking about…

IDK, your average boss is just a dude who has bills to pay and mouths to feed. They don't really care what happens as long as you're not doing something stupid, especially visibly and on their time.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by decryption »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #51

How do you fellow HN'ers separate their online with their corporate identity and day job? I cannot rid myself of the suspicion that your average boss is going to have a prying eye on your online activities and may even use them against you one way or another e.g. if you offer services/work on side projects that may in any way may compete w/ your employer. Anyone got experience to share in that regard? Thinking about…

My experience is that bosses read my blog, then when they or a fellow manager need to hire someone, have reached out to me asking me to apply. So it cuts both ways - maybe your shitty boss sees you blogging and sharing your experience, but a good boss will see that and go "I want this passionate and curious person to work for me".

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rectang »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #51

How do you fellow HN'ers separate their online with their corporate identity and day job? I cannot rid myself of the suspicion that your average boss is going to have a prying eye on your online activities and may even use them against you one way or another e.g. if you offer services/work on side projects that may in any way may compete w/ your employer. Anyone got experience to share in that regard? Thinking about…

I only work for small companies that don’t have any business interest in areas where I want to maintain independent side projects.

When a startup I was working at made a successful exit and got acquired my a major corporation that did have business interests which overlapped with my side projects, I refused the bonus contract and froze my side project activity until leaving about a year later.

Don’t get cute. Avoid side projects that compete with your employer, and disclose unrelated side projects properly so that your employer is forced to acknowledge them. Do what it takes to avoid entanglement, making sacrifices if necessary.

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#55

Post by fuzztester »

performative wrote: post #34
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

superficially it makes me very happy that both strategies make very cute acronyms

ha ha, nice. my cowboy (western movies) take on that: ride with your POSSE to make PESOS. :)

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Post by simonw »

tolerance wrote: post #50
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.

I know it’s gotten some push back but to be honest I’m fond of the more manual approach that you take on HN. While I don’t follow nor am I necessarily interested in everything that you cover, I do appreciate the presence of having something like a local “correspondent” around when you do appear to provide trails of supplementary commentary. The lengths that I see you go through to do all of this tastefully and transp…

I definitely won't be automating submission to places like HN.

I figure if you chose to follow me on Bluesky/Twitter/Mastodon/LinkedIn there's no ethical issue at all with me automating the process of having my new blog entries show up in my feeds there, as opposed to copying-and-pasting the links by hand.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by RyanOD »

Zaskoda wrote: post #20

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 accoun…

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

1000x yes to this! It can be really frustrating when a link takes me to FB, TW, IG, etc. - none of which I use.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by simonw »

jamietanna wrote: post #46
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.

Have you looked at https://posseparty.com/ as a possible option? Supports integrations with those platforms and more, and "all" it needs is an Atom feed!

Ooh I hadn't seen that. I'm still hung up on character limits - I want to make sure the summary I include isn't truncated with ... and is instead the right length for that particular platform.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by casualscience »

foxfired wrote: post #21

I've restarted blogging last year, going from a handful of blog post to, publishing consistently. All content gets published on my blog first. I've seen an ~8x increase of traffic. I was affected by zero-clicks from Google's AI overview, but the bulk of my traffic now comes from RSS readers. I published a write up just this morning: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-its-like-blogging-in-2025

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

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