Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

kept by eddie jan 05

Hacker News commenters recommend the POSSE model (publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere) for content ownership, but acknowledge challenges with automation, platform policies, and community engagement.

The “small web” is bigger than you might think
A Hacker News discussion argues the small web is defined by a non-commercial mindset, not size, and remains sizable yet buried by algorithm-driven search engines.
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Why I email complete strangers
Cold-emailing strangers with genuine intent often leads to meaningful connections, and the anxiety of sending is outweighed by the potential for unexpected positive outcomes.
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Internet Handle
The piece argues that domains should serve as universal internet handles, and AT Protocol-based apps like Bluesky already enable this.
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How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
Markdown, created by John Gruber in 2004 as a simple plain-text formatting tool for blogging, has become the ubiquitous standard for annotating everything from AI prompts to code repositories.
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