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Apr 3, 2017 at 22:43
POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere https://indieweb.org/POSSE This could work really well in the Mastodon system. It'd require users to run their own instances though.
POSSE
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

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