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POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world

Molly White · 27 Sept 2024

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Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.

Their wordsWith this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.

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  1. Our reading

    Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.

    Their wordsEach shift takes its toll, and everyone has a limit of how much energy they’re willing to expend on a new platform that will eventually, like its predecessors, join the graveyard of defunct websites.

  2. Our reading

    Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.

    Their wordsI think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.

  3. Our reading

    Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.

    Their wordsWith this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.

  4. Our reading

    Publishing on your own site first removes the length, format and style limits that every social platform imposes on what you can say.

    Their wordsNext to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.

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