With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm. Data shows an apparent change at Facebook in May caused website traffic to tank at some news sites.
If only there was some kind of a protocol, widely supported, that would allow publishers to push content to their readers directly. Readers could “subscribe” to (say) “channels”, which would get populated with items published by publishers.
It could be a really simple method of sindication! I even saw a nice icon that I think would work well for it:
If only there was some kind of a protocol, widely supported, that would allow publishers to push content to their readers directly. Readers could “subscribe” to (say) “channels”, which would get populated with items published by publishers.
It could be a really simple method of sindication! I even saw a nice icon that I think would work well for it: