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.
Great philosophy.
The problems you described about account and friends migration have been solved like 10 years ago though by Mike Macgirvin with nomadic identity (edit: and magic auth!) in Hubzilla for example. It enables you to move your account, friends and content anywhere seamlessly.
Mastodon has been lacking behind all this time. Only in UI is it more streamlined.
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@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 Of course, the acronym might be new but the concept isn't -- to a degree the lj->Dreamwidth appraoch where you'd crosspost to twitter and Facebook (and Livejournal, for a minute) was a variant of this.
But what strikes me is "and domains I rent" -- is this brevity, or an assertion that one rents domains one has registered rather than owning them?
I'd say that ownership is closer (under most registrars) even though you have to pay an annual fee or lose them.
@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 😉
@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!