Own 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.

@Daojoan .. sadly only a few percent can actually do that
@ErikJonker @Daojoan But it would be fun to make it easier for folks to be able to do it!
@firepoet @Daojoan True, companies/businesses have a role to play there!
@ErikJonker @Daojoan Sure. And nonprofits. And individual programmers who have an itch to do good.
@firepoet @Daojoan #Signal is a good example of a large platform with accountability, transparency and privacy-by-design