                                      POSSE

   an overview of the content syndication strategy for starbreaker.org 🤮

   published on Sunday, 5 July 2026

   This text was dumped from starbreaker.org/posse.html with lynx.

   POSSE is an IndieWeb concept. The idea is that you should publish on
   your own website first, and then syndicate your work to other
   platforms. Sometimes this can be done automatically. More often, it is
   done manually.

   My syndication strategy is to provide full-text and headlines-only web
   feeds in Atom format, styled with CSS for readability in browsers. You
   can bookmark them in your brower. You can subscribe to them yourself.
   If you run a non-commercial social platform or aggregator, you are
   welcome to pull my feeds on a reasonable interval, such as every 24
   hours.

   If you run a commercial platform, negotiate a commercial license with
   me. And if your developers can’t cope with XML, my consulting rate is
   $250/hour with a 40 hour minimum, I charge double for meetings that
   should have been emails, and triple for on-site work. Why? Because fuck
   you is why.

   I do not currently run a newsletter or syndicate to other platforms,
   aside from sharing links on the 32bit Café Discourse forum. I have not
   wanted to, because I think that since I provide feeds I have done my
   part. Furthermore, the major platforms to which IndieWeb people have
   devoted so much effort to interoperate plainly do not want people
   sharing hyperlinks that lead out of their virtual panopticons. Most
   importantly, if you think I’m a dick here, you should see me the next
   time I create a throwaway account on Reddit and go on a shitposting
   bender.

   Nonetheless, I am considering syndicating a monthly digest to Bear
   Blog, write.as, or Buttondown. I may return to the Fediverse, but if I
   do so it might be by syndicating to write.as instead of bothering with
   Mastodon and friends. Dreamwidth might also be a good fit, even though
   I had missed out on the original LiveJournal. It would give people who
   want to post comments a place to do so without cluttering my main site
   or depending on third-party services like FastComments or Disqus.

   Under no circumstances will I join Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
   Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Medium, Instagram, or Substack.
   Twitter and Substack in particular are Nazi bars. Facebook, Instagram,
   and Threads are out because Mark Zuckerberg was a mendacious little
   creep when he almost got booted out of Harvard because of FaceMash, and
   he has not improved a bit in the intervening decades. Medium is aptly
   named; the self-help content and Silicon Valley self-congratulatory
   material are neither rare nor well-done. Reddit is 4chan with
   pseudonyms, and /u/spez (CEO Steve Huffman) is an asshole. YouTube and
   TikTok are right out; I have a face made for radio.

   Speaking of radio: Madam Catastrophy will most likely have me
   assassinated if I start a podcast, and not merely because I have a
   voice made for print. There are plainly too many dudes with microphones
   who should be blogging instead; I at least can read faster than these
   clowns can talk.

on the possibility of being assassinated by Madam Catastrophy

   My wife’s threat of violence should I join their ranks is not idle. She
   has seen Double Indemnity, and has consumed enough true crime to have a
   credible chance of making it look like she had nothing to do with it.
   She knows not to tell Johnny Law anything but, "I would prefer not to
   answer questions without an attorney present." She knows that no DA
   will go to trial if they can persuade or intimidate a defendant into
   taking a plea bargain, and being as ornery as I am will demand the jury
   trial that is her right as an American.

   She knows how to ensure the police won’t find a glove that fits. After
   all, if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit. She also knows that
   once acquitted, she can keep everything instead of settling for half
   after a divorce. Assuming she’s even indicted, of course. I did not
   marry an airhead.

   This is just as well for the rest of you: I am not cut out to be a
   content creator, except when I retreat to the bathroom with an E-meter,
   drop trou, and clear out some butt thetans. But by that standard, even
   babies can be content creators. 💩

   And Scientology, Occasional Reader, is just space opera for Cathars.
   You knew it before; believe it now.

   Incidentally, she won’t have me buried next to Jimmy Hoffa for the
   jokes above. She knows I’ve made far more egregious ones in the past,
   and may come up with worse ones still. I could always work in an excuse
   for one of the characters in my fiction to know about a technical death
   metal band called Scatological Ideation that uses scat singing for
   vocals. And their discography? One studio album—Wafflstömp!—and three
   double live albums:
     * Public Defecation
     * Defecazione al fresco
     * Défécation en plein air

   As you might have suspected, I am the reason M. John Harrison was very
   afraid of worldbuilding and its practitioners.

   (end of tangent)

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   love metal 🤘 — hate fascism 👊
   death to rapists and rape culture 💀
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   if a purchase doesn’t confer ownership, then downloading digital media
   isn’t theft 🏴‍☠️
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   Satanic nation 😈

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