JA WestenbergOwn your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed.
This is the stuff that works in the long term.
Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.
Erik Jonker@Daojoan .. sadly only a few percent can actually do that
João PinheiroBut there are better alternatives than mainstream social media.
@joaopinheiro @Daojoan True, in my opinion the solution lies in less monopolies more competition, better regulation and accountability. Because even people who can (like me) don't host their own website , mailserver etc
Agreed! That's why I've moved to the Fediverse some years ago! And I don't use any mainstream service for anything important.
Stephen 🌈 (he/him)@ErikJonker @Daojoan But it would be fun to make it easier for folks to be able to do it!
@ErikJonker @Daojoan Sure. And nonprofits. And individual programmers who have an itch to do good.
Mx Autumn 
@ErikJonker @Daojoan and yet I remember at school in the very early 00s and a lot of people my age did, things like Geocities being free and having a webpage being cool at the time probably helped most surmount the onboarding process. Those who didn’t still had fancy MySpace profiles.
What’s happened in the decades since to make it so much more difficult for regular folk?
@carbontwelve @Daojoan ...the other options on the big tech platforms are easier i think