Fun with dlvr.it

23 June 2017

Check it out—I'm "on Facebook" again. Just fixed my gateway through dlvr.it. If you're reading this on Facebook, that's why.

Dlvr.it is a nifty service that will post to social sites from an RSS feed. If you don't run your own linklog feed, the good news is that Pocket will generate RSS feeds from the articles you save, so if you want to share links with people still on Facebook, the combination of Pocket and dlvr.it makes that easy to do without actually spending human eyeball time there. My linklog feed is mirrored from my own weird feedreader, which works for me but not really ready for other users.

There's a story about Thomas Nelson, Jr., leader of the Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War.

During the siege and battle Nelson led the Virginia Militia whom he had personally organized and supplied with his own funds. Legend had it that Nelson ordered his artillery to direct their fire on his own house which was occupied by Cornwallis, offering five guineas to the first man who hit the house.

Would Facebook's owners do the same, now that we know that foreign interests use Facebook to subvert America? Probably not. The Nelson story is just an unconfirmed patriotic anecdote, and we can't expect that kind of thing from today's post-patriotic investor class. Anyway, just seeing if I can move Facebook's bots/eyeballs ratio up a little.