It honestly is infinitely all kinds of sad that I syndicate my blog posts to Facebook, no external link, and everyone eats it up, but if I send someone a link to my website via SMS or something, I get, "Do you publish these on Facebook? Can I just read you on Facebook or Substack? I don't get why you made your own website. Strange."
I get it that my layout isn't for everybody but that's why I don't block reader mode. That's why I have full text RSS. I give *you* the choice but this only seems to alien people *more* not less.
I cannot tell you how so many people actually want to read my things on a closed platform. I’m the exact opposite. I love personal blogs, RSS, and alike, but average readers, I’m noticing, want to read things on closed platforms. Not all of them of course, but enough for me to have to syndicate my work to close platforms to keep an audience
