I embraced a strategy called #POSSE: #PostOwnSiteSyndicateEverywhere. With POSSE, the permalink and native habitat for your material is a site you control (in my case, a #Wordpress blog with all the telemetry, logging and surveillance disabled). Then you repost that content to other platforms - mostly social media - with links back to your own site:
Here's a heads up for #mastodon and other #fediverse users who reply to #wordpress blogs using the ActivityPub plugin.
The comments you publish from your fediverse accounts will appear on those blogs (or - at the very least - in the admin dashboard's "Comments" section where they must be approved).
If anyone replies to you on the blog, those reply comments will -NOT- be federated, so you'll have to visit the blogs to see if anyone replied to you.
And by the same token, if someone in the fediverse replies to your in-fediverse comment, the blog owners will not see your fediverse-to-fediverse followup.
@neil@chris What platform was this on‽ Was it #Medium or a random #WordPress blog‽ I regrettably moved one of my blogs off of Medium due to the paywall (as I wanted people to freely read what I posted) & manually “imported” (more like reposted) my blog posts to #Tumblr.
I wish there was a way for premium users to turn off the subscription feature for their blogs. If I am willing to pay for it, visitors should be able to freely read my content.
@pfefferle@Downes@chrisaldrich@ton Hey Matthias, is it going to be updated with more features any time soon? I LOVE this plugin. I guess it turned whole #WordPress world into new BIG thing
How to choose the best blogging platform. Unsurprisingly, they chose #WordPress, and specifically the self-hosted ".org" version of WordPress.
Based on their criteria, it is hard to argue that most widely-used platforms are either harder to use or may be hard to get a useful export if you decide to leave them. I just think that since WP sites are said to be about 1/4 of the Web and they are constantly under attack, it can be difficult and frustrating to keep up with updates (and especially updates to add-ons / extensions and themes) or to know when to disable / delete an add-on that isn't being updated quickly enough in response to a security exploit.
People *do* need to learn to take some responsibility for their own only presences, but then we need to make sure they know up front that this is part of the package.
@geniusmusing @brandon It has been a few years since I last installed #Wordpress, but that was how it was for them, too. Upload, add the database information, create an admin account, start using your new blog.
(Though I admit the built in stats were becoming more and more dependent on Wordpress dot com for their functionality last I checked.)
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@Tchambers How about #Wordpress, which essentially is a part of the !fediverse already as we can subscribe to all of their #Atom feeds (and I believe PubSubHubbub is enabled for anything .wordpress.com).
I like #IndieWeb too. At this point, it seems to be primarily a developer's playground. But when more CMSs and publishing platforms support the IndieWeb #microformats, it might be more accessible for lay people. In fact, I think there already is an IndieWeb plugin for #WordPress, and even an IndieWeb native #CMS called #Known.https://withknown.com/