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The network effects ARE the genuine utility.

theturtletalks 3mo ago
And you can take advantage of their network effects by implementing a POSSE system. Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. That way, your website is the source of truth and the other places are like museums you curate to. Why should you go thru the trouble? Because these social networks own your content and your audience and won't hesitate a second to drop you if they deem fit.
- cma 3mo ago
  x.com heavily penalizes off-site links.
  - uhoh-itsmaciek 3mo ago
    Fair enough, but that move should make you think twice before tying your fate to theirs.
  - theturtletalks 3mo ago
    Using something like Typefully or even Postiz lets you post without linking to any site. If you publish a blogpost, you can have one of these tools create an C article with the same content.
    - cma 3mo ago
      Great way to not get subscribers to your substack etc.
- biztos 3mo ago
  "Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE (There were a dozen other, unrelated things ranking higher on Google.)
Groxx 3mo ago
I'm not sure I'd describe cartel behavior as utility.
friendzis 3mo ago
For the majority of people it's the opposite of utility. Not even inutility or uselessness, it's negatively useful. In any social network where "network effects" are a thing in the first place, there is more content produced than can be consumed by a particular user. The algorithm (tm) is forced to curate certain pieces of content out of circulation and can only heavily promote a negligible minority of content. This creates content reach distribution that is essentially a parabola. While there can be tons of signals to adjust the reach, the primary signals are inevitably going to be virality of the account and early engagement. You can't reasonably look at long term engagement due to content to eyeball ratio. Ergo, posts must be designed to quickly grab early attention in an infinite feedback loop and this incentivizes cartels and bot farms to create echo chambers. Both extremely harmful phenomena.

And you can take advantage of their network effects by implementing a POSSE system. Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. That way, your website is the source of truth and the other places are like museums you curate to. Why should you go thru the trouble? Because these social networks own your content and your audience and won't hesitate a second to drop you if they deem fit.

cma 3mo ago
x.com heavily penalizes off-site links.
- uhoh-itsmaciek 3mo ago
  Fair enough, but that move should make you think twice before tying your fate to theirs.
- theturtletalks 3mo ago
  Using something like Typefully or even Postiz lets you post without linking to any site. If you publish a blogpost, you can have one of these tools create an C article with the same content.
  - cma 3mo ago
    Great way to not get subscribers to your substack etc.
biztos 3mo ago
"Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere" https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE (There were a dozen other, unrelated things ranking higher on Google.)

Groxx 3mo ago

I'm not sure I'd describe cartel behavior as utility.

friendzis 3mo ago

For the majority of people it's the opposite of utility. Not even inutility or uselessness, it's negatively useful. In any social network where "network effects" are a thing in the first place, there is more content produced than can be consumed by a particular user. The algorithm (tm) is forced to curate certain pieces of content out of circulation and can only heavily promote a negligible minority of content. This creates content reach distribution that is essentially a parabola. While there can be tons of signals to adjust the reach, the primary signals are inevitably going to be virality of the account and early engagement. You can't reasonably look at long term engagement due to content to eyeball ratio. Ergo, posts must be designed to quickly grab early attention in an infinite feedback loop and this incentivizes cartels and bot farms to create echo chambers. Both extremely harmful phenomena.