2026-03-09T17:42:47Z https://d.moonfire.us/tags/twitter/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2014-08-08T05:00:00Z https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/08/mailing-lists/

I realized that I haven't been obvious everywhere I hang my hat on social networks. Here is a list along with what I post where.

<p>A few days ago, in my random wandering of the Internet, I came up to a post on <a href="http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2014/08/06/august-blog-fest/">Indies Unlimited</a> about blog sharing. I threw my two cents in, but I don't write that much about getting published, so I figured I wouldn't get a lot of posts.</p> <p>It wasn't until I saw other people's responses (not to me) that I realized I don't really have a way for people to &ldquo;follow&rdquo; me. More importantly, the ways I did have, I didn't actually <em>post</em> on my website for anyone to follow me.</p> <h1>RSS/Atom Feeds</h1> <p>My preferred method of paying attention to any website (including authors and comics) is a RSS feed. I use <a href="https://newsblur.com/">NewsBlur</a> for the bulk of my reading because it is a small developer, it replaced Google Reader nicely, and has most of the features I want.</p> <p>Naturally, this is the one that I had set up from the beginning. I did break it into multiple feeds, so anyone who just wants to see my writing or programming posts can do so. Or look at everything.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://d.moonfire.us/atom.xml">Atom/RSS feed of all posts</a></li> <li><a href="http://d.moonfire.us/categories/writing.xml">Atom/RSS feed for writing only</a></li> <li><a href="http://d.moonfire.us/categories/programming.xml">Atom/RSS feed for programming only</a></li> </ul> <p>I haven't quite created feeds for every tag (so you could follow only <a href="/tags/sand-and-blood/">Sand and Blood</a> posts for example). I will, eventually, or if someone asks.</p> <h1>Mailing Lists</h1> <p>Well, mailing lists is kind of a stretch, but I don't care for MailChimp. I do, however, use Google Groups for a couple of categories. It does the important part, sends emails, but doesn't quite have the social and Big Brother views. For some reason, I don't like when the link from a mass-mailing doesn't show the actual link; Google Groups doesn't mess with the links.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-announce">dmoonfire-announce</a> (read only, writing announcements only, very low traffic since I don't write that much)</li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-blog">dmoonfire-blog</a> (read only, all blog posts)</li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire">dmoonfire</a> (read/write, has all blog posts but you can respond and chat)</li> </ul> <h1>Twitter</h1> <p>The other social network I use is <a href="https://twitter.com/dmoonfire">Twitter</a>. This happens to be my favorite one to use at the moment, mainly because it fits the way I think and interact. There are some Twitter-clones I'll use eventually, but they aren't there yet.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/dmoonfire">@dmoonfire</a> (random saying, conversations, and a link to all blog posts)</li> </ul> <h1>Facebook</h1> <p>I don't use Facebook a lot, but I do have a fan site. It should be set up to automatically mirror any blog posts about writing to it.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dmoonfirefans">D. Moonfire Fans</a> (writing posts only)</li> </ul> <h1>LiveJournal</h1> <p>I know that LiveJournal appears to be dead for most people, I still maintain a mirror of it. I think it is for a single person, but I just don't have the heart to shut it down yet.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://dmoonfire.livejournal.com/">dmoonfire</a> (all blog posts)</li> </ul> <h1>Google+</h1> <p>I just added this yesterday because I found a way of mirroring things from my blog. If you can't guess, I prefer to have cross-posters for the bulk of the writing but respond individually on each network. Google+ has always been a messy thing, mainly because of the cross-posting, but I think I found a way.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://plus.google.com/110772252513189006556/about">+D. Moonfire Fans</a> (writing posts only)</li> </ul> <h1>Diaspora</h1> <p>I love the idea of Diaspora, but sadly it really doesn't have the market share for social networking. Not to mention, no cross-posting that I can set up which means I have to manually enter stuff&hellip; which means I don't always do it.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://joindiaspora.com/people/4d1a56bf2c17436aa4006515">dmoonfire@joindiaspora.com</a></li> </ul> <h1>Everywhere</h1> <p>I love to answer questions and chat. It doesn't happen much, but regardless of the network, I love feedback, interaction, and just connecting. I think it is one of the important parts of being a fan and a creator.</p>