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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by 0xpgm »

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…

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.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by nunobrito »

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

Good article, learned quite a bit.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by performative »

fuzztester wrote: post #55
performative wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :)

stack that cash with ur bros

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by mtlynch »

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

>the bulk of my traffic now comes from RSS readers.

I don't think this is correct unless you mean strictly the number of HTTP requests to your web server.

You were the 9th most popular blogger on HN in 2025.[0] Your post says you have about 500 readers via RSS. How can that represent more readers than people who read your posts through HN? I'd guess HN brought you about 1M visitors in 2025 based on the number of your front page posts.

[0] https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/domain/?d...

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by neilv »

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…

Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom...

Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element?

Is there a worthwhile convention for advertising RSS/Atom visually in the page, too?

(On one site, I tried adding an "RSS" icon, linking to the Atom feed XML, alongside all the usual awful social media site icons. But then I removed it, because I was afraid it would confuse visitors who weren't very Web savvy, and maybe get their browser displaying XML or showing them an error message about the MIME content type.)

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by ungreased0675 »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #68
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…

Do you have a recommended iOS RSS feed reader?

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by foxfired »

casualscience wrote: post #60
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

Not even close to making a living! It does pay for my server though which costs $15 a month. YouTube gives you much more visibility. I'll try to compile the numbers from my single Carbon ad placement and the donations I receive from readers.

But I also don't think I have the process in place to do Blog, YouTube, Podcast and hold a full time job. Yes the job is my source of income.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rednafi »

I've used Twitter to publish my thoughts for years. In the beginning, I'd write multiple threads to get my points across.

Then, when Twitter started supporting longer tweets, I started publishing essays and it got the job done.

But at the end of each year, it was really hard to trace all my posts and write reviews about them. That's exactly what brought me to POSSE. I've been maintaining my blog[1] since early 2020 and it feels really good to know that I own my stuff. Plus, over the years, it has opened up so many doors for me.

Too bad many of these walled-garden platforms have now started to demote posts if they contain external URLs. I'm battling that by posting the links as a comment to the original post, which contains a cover photo of the blog.

[1]: https://rednafi.com

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rednafi »

neilv wrote: post #75
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…

Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom... Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element? Is there a worthwhile convention for advertising RSS/Atom visually in the page, too? (On one site, I tried adding an "RSS" icon, linking to the Atom feed XML, alongside all the usual awful social media site icons. But t…

I removed all the bullshit social media icons and made sure that the rss icon is the first thing you notice on the landing page[1].

[1]: https://rednafi.com

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