foxmagic

What to say to my many friends who seem to be starting substacks these days? I am happy for them, but I am vaguely worried for where substack (the platform) is heading. I wish for us all to cultivate independent websites with syndication via sufficiently decentralised protocols. But: power laws are hard to deny.

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Oh man I just spent 10 minutes making several attempts to. It’s really hard lol. I think I just want for my friends to avoid being locked into a platform, and to have enough of their own thing happening. At least in parallel.

So if I be doing a writing series - I should be posting to my own website?

For my friends embarking on longer term projects, my encouragement would be for them to write on their own domain first, then to syndicate to corporate networks. But I understand the convenience of going all in on corporate networks and hoping it all works out. And jumping ship if/when it doesn’t.

what does syndicate to corporate networks mean?

Once you have a piece you can repost it onto platforms like LinkedIn, twitter, facebook, etc. Though I’d warn against spreading attention too thin.

Why the warning against spreading attention too thin?

Not sure what that means here. 

Thank you for taking the time btw fox, this is O from FRWC

I'm learning ✍️

Once you have a piece you can repost it onto platforms like LinkedIn, twitter, facebook, etc. Though I’d warn against spreading attention too thin. https://indieweb.org/POSSE