Last month, I had ~100 daily views. This month (rolling), I've had 23k a day. In the past week, I've had 700k views. What caused this? Social media did... Speci

Last month, I had ~100 daily views. This month (rolling), I've had 23k a day. In the past week, I've had 700k views. What caused this? Social media did... Specifically, Mastodon. I had 150 mastodon followers. I'm not famous, I'm still not. I have 1/5th the followers of this guy. Around the 15th, someone posted my article[0], which got me a good 30k views and a hundred followers, which set the scene for what happened next: When I heard about XZ, I posted about it[1] on Mastodon. I did no promotion other than that, aside from posting to HN (the HN post was killed, presumably dang wanted to have only one article about it on the home page). Now my article is linked to by NYT, Wired, Ars, NIST, The Verge, and a whole plethoria of other outlets. I'm convinced Mastodon was the catalyst. Maybe, I got lucky twice this month, and I'll never get lucky again. Maybe though, there's something else to social media. [0]: https://hachyderm.io/@cvennevik/112100333787925276 https://hachyderm.io/@cvennevik/112100333787925276 [1]: https://social.coop/@eb/112180540086255196 https://social.coop/@eb/112180540086255196