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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by hoherd »

One 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 this was that people had to create content within facebook instead of outside it. This reoriented the flow of content creation so that it must originate inside of Facebook, removing the ability to use FB as a passive consumer of content created in a workflow where the creators chose the entire flow.

IMHO this is one of the biggest steps down ever in FB history. It was one of the biggest attacks on the open web, and I'm sad to say that it mostly worked, and the internet at large is worse as a result.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by starkparker »

nicbou wrote: post #48

This is my approach and I fully recommend it. My personal website is my canonical home address on the web. It has outlived a few platforms and many rounds of enshittification. A few caveats: - You will have different communities on each social network. Your personal website might be home to you, but to your users, it's not. You're just another creator on their platform of choice. - Each community has its own vibe, an…

I've found that managing the conversations across venues is way harder than publishing to them, and POSSE doesn't address this except for one line about backfeeds/"reverse syndication", which most mainstream services either don't support or actively sabotage. It easily takes more effort to engage across services than to post across them.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

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…

Use a pseudonym, don't cross-contaminate

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by wombatpm »

hoherd wrote: post #61

One 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…

The other step down was when you had to pay in order to guarantee that your post was seen by all of your followers.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

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…

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 have style normalization for example and native reader apps support offline reading.

If only there were purpose-built open standards and client apps for other types of web content…

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by tolerance »

simonw wrote: post #56
tolerance wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, no, perhaps you misunderstood me. I like how you link to your own writing in the discussions here. I don't suspect you to start automating that.

To tell you the truth I came to this actual submission to express my apathy toward the ‘POSSE’ concept but I saw you here and figured that I could somehow voice that feeling while simultaneously making mention of a sharing method that I do find worthwhile and more personable. And not an easy thing to pull off.

How much of your traffic comes from HN as opposed to the other platforms?

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