# Mailing lists and social networking => .. Up a Level A few days ago, in my random wandering of the Internet, I came up to a post on Indies Unlimited[1] 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. => http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2014/08/06/august-blog-fest/ 1: http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2014/08/06/august-blog-fest/ 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 “follow” me. More importantly, the ways I did have, I didn't actually post on my website for anyone to follow me. # RSS/Atom Feeds My preferred method of paying attention to any website (including authors and comics) is a RSS feed. I use NewsBlur[2] 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. => https://newsblur.com/ 2: https://newsblur.com/ 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. => http://d.moonfire.us/atom.xml Atom/RSS feed of all posts => http://d.moonfire.us/categories/writing.xml Atom/RSS feed for writing only => http://d.moonfire.us/categories/programming.xml Atom/RSS feed for programming only I haven't quite created feeds for every tag (so you could follow only Sand and Blood[3] posts for example). I will, eventually, or if someone asks. => /tags/sand-and-blood/ 3: /tags/sand-and-blood/ ## Mailing Lists 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. * dmoonfire-announce[4] (read only, writing announcements only, very low traffic since I don't write that much) => https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-announce 4: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-announce * dmoonfire-blog[5] (read only, all blog posts) => https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-blog 5: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire-blog * dmoonfire[6] (read/write, has all blog posts but you can respond and chat) => https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire 6: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dmoonfire ## Twitter The other social network I use is Twitter[7]. 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. => https://twitter.com/dmoonfire 7: https://twitter.com/dmoonfire * @dmoonfire[8] (random saying, conversations, and a link to all blog posts) => https://twitter.com/dmoonfire 8: https://twitter.com/dmoonfire ## Facebook 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. * D. Moonfire Fans[9] (writing posts only) => https://www.facebook.com/dmoonfirefans 9: https://www.facebook.com/dmoonfirefans ## LiveJournal 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. * dmoonfire[10] (all blog posts) => http://dmoonfire.livejournal.com/ 10: http://dmoonfire.livejournal.com/ ## Google+ 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. * +D. Moonfire Fans[11] (writing posts only) => https://plus.google.com/110772252513189006556/about 11: https://plus.google.com/110772252513189006556/about ## Diaspora 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… which means I don't always do it. => https://joindiaspora.com/people/4d1a56bf2c17436aa4006515 dmoonfire@joindiaspora.com ## Everywhere 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. # Metadata Categories: => /categories/programming/ Programming => /categories/writing/ Writing Tags: => /tags/facebook/ Facebook => /tags/feeds/ Feeds => /tags/google-groups/ Google Groups => /tags/google/ Google+ => /tags/livejournal/ LiveJournal => /tags/mailing-lists/ Mailing Lists => /tags/newsblur/ NewsBlur => /tags/twitter/ Twitter # Footer Below are various useful links within this site and to related sites (not all have been converted over to Gemini). => /now/ Now => /contact/ Contact => /bio/ Biography => /bibliography/ Bibliography => /support/ Support => /fiction/ Fiction => //fedran.com/ Fedran => https://mfgames.com/ Coding => https://moonfire.us/ The Moonfires => /categories/ Categories => /tags/ Tags => /privacy/ Privacy => /colophon/ Colophon => /license/ License => https://lists.typewriter.press/subscription?f=RDQ6f3AFHXnX2o763d5TgUmaYP7N763gR6FjZyGUUFWhyRkpgZF9I35ySICDBEdFFtgG Mailing List => https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/08/08/mailing-lists/