A simple technique called “POSSE” offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party social media platforms.
@molly0xfff ohhh interesting. I try with Buffer but it's not ideal...and paid and corpo silo'd of course.
Anyone got experience trying something like this on Wordpress? Technical I can do this directly thanks to Jetpack, but I mostly post long form on wordpress and it would be way too spammy (email updates!) to post as I do on social on https://zelda.zone
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@molly0xfff This is stellar — thank you, Molly.
(Not sure if you follow @aworkinglibrary’s writing, but her latest essay is downright wonderful. And it touches on POSSE, too: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home)
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@molly0xfff What every newspaper does.
However, it's a oneway street. You can get your word out, but #POSSE does not scale to interaction with other users.
@molly0xfff I like the name! I’ve seen @searls do this before it was named. An unfortunate side effect is that all posts show his avatar twice (due to blog preview image), which is very distracting.
I hope tech helps standardize this, so the cross linking and back feeding becomes more effective.
@suzannealdrich in case you haven’t seen this, feel free to scroll down to:
Outside of that, options are somewhat scarce, although there is a WordPress plugin and tools like Brid.gy and IFTTT.
(There are links on all these words in the article)
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A return to the old days, when one could experiment and publish at will, share the origin url as needed. Account portability? No need.
Next, NNTP makes a big comeback …
@molly0xfff Thanks for the great read! I'm disappointed at Threads' limited interpretability with ActivityPub / Mastodon ☹️
@molly0xfff dang , I really needed this as a reminder. Even though I self host mastodon I feel like I should be doing this even just for more thoughtful posts. Thanks for this article !
@molly0xfff "Become a member to start commenting." Oh dear, you just moved the problem of multiple servers from yourself to all of your readers; that is even less scalable.
@molly0xfff This technique is really not simple at all.
@molly0xfff @dngrs I tried explaining this to the Promotion and Publicity Committee of my local council back in 2017 when I was a member. I don’t think they got it.
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Super nice piece.
Please add it to the wiki https://indieweb.org/POSSE
@molly0xfff Great Post! I came across it from @manton (I assume he share it via @manton@manton.org on https://micro.blog).
When it comes to third party services, I try (if possible) to post them under a domain I own (similar to what I do with #Mastodon, #Misskey, etcetera). I will use @FedicaHQ to share them elsewhere.
The only active accounts I use that are not under my domain are @darnell (#Flipboard) & @darnell@threads.net (#Threads).
@molly0xfff #POSSE is also very useful in project management. Write once, reuse multiple times 😉
@molly0xfff Micro.blog is useful for the POSSE approach.
@beep @aworkinglibrary oh, that’s lovely. adding it to the further reading!
@molly0xfff Oh nice! Mandy’s one of my very favorite writers (and people), love that you both wrote about this. In the same week, no less!