POSSE Method: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

I’ve been doing POSSE for a while now and it had helped me immensely by saving time and stress.

Basically every time I post something on a 3rd party site I store the content locally. Currently only in Obsidian and some locally cached videos and articles (TubeArchivist and Raindrop)

When I get dragged to the same argument or topic again, I can just grab my old comment, maybe edit/update it a bit and post it.

For some stuff I have longer blog posts I can link to, for some they are images and graphs.

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8 Comments

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That's awesome. Glad we're finally automating the most important things in life - internet arguments.

lepinkainen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/ 😀

But more seriously: I do frequent shitty FB forums where newbies ask the same question over and over again. I can just quickly copy-paste my longish and sourced response every time. I’m pretty close to just setting up an Alfred/TextExpand macro for the most common ones 😀

(On a proper forum we could just point them to a FAQ thread, but Meta makes is intentionally hard because ✨engagement✨)

will_a113@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Feel like the (totally impractical) fediverse end-game would be for each individual to have their own activitypub service, and federation happening on a person-by-person basis. So you retain some control over anything you publish, and your history is yours to keep.

jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y

The Indie Web website up there actually has protocols to do most of what people do for social media, in exactly that structure. It's enough of a pain to set up that I don't see it becoming normal, but the amount that I've set up for my website at least works...

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 2y

I don’t value my content all that much.

paperd@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What good is posting to a self hosted WordPress and on WordPress dot com? This doesn't make a lot of sense.

lepinkainen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You post to a location you control, then post the link to that to other sites.

That way you own and control the content.

There’s a reason why Meta and Twitter hate external links, it takes people out of their feed

paperd@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y

Yes, I understand, but half the stuff in the diagram on the website just doesn't make sense.

Just make an RSS/ATOM feed and be done with it.