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

POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

(also to Google Buzz til it shutdown) note(and article titles), reply, RSVP posts are snowflake copied by the personal site server to Twitter with permashortlink citation links/references (see Whistle for details) back to the original. For the Web's sake, let's hope Google sticks with AMP long enough to convince publishers that the real future is speeding up their own pages and embracing a POSSE-style approach. https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111284796654263440 to-do: draw an updated diagram without Twitter (replace with Bluesky), and to Fediverse via BridgyFed with a line that ends in "Y" with 📤 📥 on the ends update any references / instructions to POSSE to Twitter to note historical importance and current lack of automated support to-do: add a http://micro.blog section to the "How to" section; make sure to link to micro.blog Why: 2024-02-24 Pluralistic: Vice surrenders This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control

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