Owning my microblog with POSSE

POSSE is the practice of publishing on your own site first, and pushing that out to other services. To get the content where people are, while linking back to the original owned post.

I now have a /micro blog on my own website, and automation (a GH action) to break up new posts and send them to Mastodon and Bluesky as threads. It even has it’s own rss feed.

This new setup lets me nudge people more towards my own property. As various other properties come and go, my online identity and content lasts longer.

And it solves one of my longer-standing concerns about microblogging: it feels like they can be more important content now, because they’re mine.