I really like this philosophy. I've been using it for a couple of years now - everything goes on my personal site, then I post links on Mastodon, Bluesky and Twitter and sometimes (if I remember to do so) LinkedIn, plus copy and paste it all into a Substack email every week or so.

I really need to automate it though - hard on Twitter and LinkedIn but still pretty easy for Bluesky and Mastodon.

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jamietanna 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you looked at https://posseparty.com/ as a possible option? Supports integrations with those platforms and more, and "all" it needs is an Atom feed!

	▲	simonw 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ooh I hadn't seen that. I'm still hung up on character limits - I want to make sure the summary I include isn't truncated with ... and is instead the right length for that particular platform.

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tolerance 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 transparently are not unnoticed.

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simonw 6 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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tolerance 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	simonw 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		According to Plausible in the last 12 months my traffic has been 38% "direct/no referrer", 25.5% Google, 12.5% Hacker News, 8.3% Twitter.

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echelon 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If we had stuck with standard semantic web microformats, RSS/Atom syndication, FOAF-ish graphs, URIs for identity but also anonymous pubkey identities with reputation graphs - we could have built an entirely distributed social media graph that worked like email.

But alas, Facebook pushed forward too fast to counter.

There's still a chance, but the software needs to focus on simplicity and ease of use. Publishing blobs of signed content that can be added to anything - HTML pages, P2P protocols, embedded into emails and tweets - maybe we can hijack the current systems and have distributed identity and publishing take over.