If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it

If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it by Cory Dransfeldt.

If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it. I don't want want your app because I don't want a homescreen full of apps for publications and platforms.
I don't have a fear of missing out. I am missing out. I've come to terms with that. Algorithms can be a convenient means of surfacing relevant content. They can be. But those algorithms are tailored by platform operators whose aims are (very) often not aligned with yours. They tailor content discovery purely to keep you hooked. Eyeballs to ads, money to shareholders.

Or as commented on by Mike Sass:

Same same. Just get an RSS feed, and stop relying on the hegemonic platform silos.

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