Elizabeth Tai

Tag: blogging

  • How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

    Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

  • POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

    When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

  • How I’m healing from algorithms

    The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • The point of my words

    People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter? 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • Substack Notes and the content moderation furor

    Substack Notes and the content moderation furor

    Chris Best’s interview with The Verge was the “why Substack sucks” article of the week. In this article I argue why top down moderation is not the solution and why Substack Notes not a Twitter killer. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

  • Mastodon, trolls and filters

    Despite our idealism about social media, it is not a town square but a forum. Usually, a badly moderated one.

  • Return of the personal blog

    Return of the personal blog

    It’s time to own the spaces where we dwell online.

  • From self-hosted WordPress to WordPress.com

    Thanks to the dominance of SEO optimised posts about WordPress from all manner of companies, any blog posts about wordpress.com is very, very difficult to find. Especially those about moving from self-hosted WordPress to WordPress.com. Here are some I discovered and kept for posterity: “…was surprised that they offer WordPress.org hosting. I always thought that…