You may have a seen a bunch of weird tweets from me lately.

This is because I’ve been trying to implement a POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) system on my blog, as I’ve mentioned before.

The basic idea is that you post once to your blog, which you own, and which no one can take away or censor, and then from there the content is automatically also posted to other places where one might have followers, like Twitter, Mastodon, etc. You can also then point readers of your blog back to those outside platforms for conversation in lieu of a comments section.

The benefit of this approach is that you get to both own your content and leverage the reach and interaction of social media platforms. The downside so far is that until I get it right there are a bunch of weird tweets.

At the moment I’m working on integrating Twitter, because that’s where everyone is. After that I was thinking of adding Threads, Mastodon, and Nostr. Threads should be easy enough, but Mastodon may not be worth the squeeze. Nostr I plan to work on mainly out of hobbyist interest.

I’d love to hear from folks who’ve tried implementing this approach.