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Publish on Your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
- pgt 9y agoMy first reaction: RSS?
- pmlnr 9y agoPlease read the entry before commenting.
- simonhamp 9y agoThis really is not possible with RSS at all, especially since the silos don’t want to support RSS in any meaningful way.
- gkya 9y agoRSS is the best thing ever, period. I've found no other ways to follow websites online that even slightly improve upon it. And count in that anything from stuff like Flipboard to Twitter and similar.
- y03a 9y agoIt really is the best. No need to create and maintain another account, no need to reskim over read/intentionally skipped entries, filters for things you know you want to always skip.
- kthejoker2 9y agoI mean, Facebook is just a glorified RSS feed with centralized discover ability. The hard part is the centralization / phonebook without that entity mucking it up. That's what made the Yellow Pages so effective, they separated the two.
- gkya 9y agoWhat social network is not a glorified RSS feed with one or more means of messaging bolted on (including "likes" and "+1s" and "favs" and "retweets" and whatnot)?
- gkya 9y agoThis is an interesting thing, but too complicated and over-broad for the mere-mortal. It should be enough to just provide an RSS/Atom feed. WRT comments, well, I never want them on my website anyways, because my blog is for my content. If anybody's interested enough in responding me, they can write an email or another blog post. If I really want comments on a particular post, I post it to HN and/or Reddit. Anything other than the pages, the feed and a mailto: link is just unnecessary IMHO. If I want a federated social media, no need for implementing and maintaining al this burden, there's Mastodon.
- inetknght 9y agoSo make it less complicated.
- gkya 9y agoWhy work on sth. I don't like and won't ever use?
- type0 9y ago> because my blog is for my content. If anybody's interested enough in responding me, they can write an email or another blog post. This doesn't make any sense. No one is going to email you or write a blog posts for some minor remark. Not only will you not get any discussion on your site but you also would not get corrections if you'r wrong on the subject, which hurts your blog. Now there are easy ways to implement comments even for static sites, specially with the so called 'serverless cloud' servers.
- discreditable 9y ago> No one is going to email you I get emails from my blog with some frequency. The people who write me come with questions or additions to my content. The signal-to-noise ratio has been amazing compared to any comment/forum system I've used in the past. I think the very small barrier to contact greatly improves the quality of the contact.
- Shywim 9y agoIMO the web was made for discovery. I don't see why would people would want to consume what I write on Twitter or Facebook where there is no formatting available (or worse splitted in small messages on Twitter). If these people prefer to stay in their walled gardens, good for them, but I don't want to strip what I write to please them. Why won't a link on these platforms suffice since they have their "cards"? Also if people want syndication in one place, there's still RSS aggregators which is a technology that works even if everyone like to pretend it doesn't.
- type0 9y ago> ... what I write on Twitter or Facebook where there is no formatting available... It's sad that "you have to be on the silos" to be seen. It hurts creativity, the Web is also made for things other than words. Can I put inline SVG animations on Twitter and Fasebook?
- johnchristopher 9y ago> Can I put inline SVG animations on Twitter and Fasebook ? Can you on HN ?
- Shywim 9y agoYou can't but you can host them on your own and then put a link to them which is more cumbersome both for the writer and the reader who has to click a different link for each svg (or other asset) instead of just clicking one link to an article which inline them.
- type0 9y agoI have seen some cool blog posts with SVG/CSS animations up-voted on HN. Because you submit links here for the most part, your blog post can still be visible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator Besides Reddit, I don't think most other mainstream social media works that way.
- epeus 9y ago
- wordpressdev 9y agoI use Hootsuite to "announce" content, published on sites that I manage, to Twitter and FB. I also use RSS to "syndicate" content from Site A to x sites in the network.
- DpdC 9y agoRSS+ITFFF. END. With it you have all the possibilities, even with the comments; only use the RSS comments with your blog.