Most effective link-push modes historically:
1997-2001: Email lists
2002-2010: RSS and search
2011-2014: Twitter and Facebok
2015-2018: Email lists again
2019 - ... feels like change is in the air yet again, but unclear how.
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Agree with this. Network topology is changing. Unclear exactly how. Far more subterranean groups now (slack, discord, even FB etc) that have meaningful scale.
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There's a further wrinkle in that. Aggregator communities (slashdot, hacker news, metafilter, reddit...) were quite important for me early on, but now somehow they seem like sideshows, with a new kind of subterranean structure emerging
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Direct mailers with QR codes are the future, I'm telling you!
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Discord / Slack / Reddit / WhatsApp communities (and Zuck's semi-private FB chats if they ever happen)
What's old is new again.
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"Thanks for listening to my podcast. Now go find the web page for it where I have links for things we referred to, with no context! Bwahahaha!"




