Posted by 47thpresident 1/2/2026
They wouldn't even need to host them anywhere, just have the same text on a device they own and control.
So fucking much is lost when a FB group just suddenly disappears along with all of the time people have spent writing on them.
I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.
Which direction would you go in?
https://justin.searls.co/atom.xml gets flung to 8 social accounts
https://github.com/searlsco/posse_party/blob/main/LICENSE.tx...
That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.
When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.
Think of it more like oldschool blog replies. Instead of replying with a 1000 word twitter message, post your answer on your blog and reply with a summary + link to your site instead.
But ALL social media sites downrank posts with links, that's why the "link in comments" shit is so common... They do not want you leaving their algorithmic feed to read stuff elsewhere.
I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional website and Wordpress on the personal one.
The benefit of SSGs is that the technical effort is tied to publishing. Once it’s online it stays online. You have both the human-readable source content and the static site. With traditional CMS there is a constant effort required to keep the website running. My dockerized Craft website wouldn’t start on the first few tries after a year offline.
SSGs are fantastic for building long-lasting websites with a low maintenance burden.
My big project for sometime this year is to switch to Eleventy.
But this is no longer available.
You have to copy and paste the article into Medium manually unfortunately.
I guess it could just be done as a multi phase post, as janky as that is.
You can inspect and see the JS. There are a few others doing this too!
Personally, I prefer using webmentions. I got them back to my site using a combination of services, so if someone talk about a post I made in bluesky or mastodon, I usually get a webmention back to the post.