And I'm saying after cross posting for years nobody cares and they are all happy to read your posts on Musks or Zuckerbergs platform surrounded by ads and making those billionaires even richer.
Those people will not switch as long as you put the content conveniently there, there is no incentive for them. And even once you stop they still will not move from there because it's just too convenient to not move.
I for one don't want to put more money into billionaires pockets, therefore I'm advocating against cross posting automatically.
Specifically email is not difficult to host because of the technical burdens but because of the black and whitelisting of the big players. Often your server IP address happens to be put on a black list without your fault and then you can write an email to Microsoft or Google and say 'pretty please remove my IP address from your blacklist' and they just don't answer because they're swamped with requests like that and they need to check each one manually or something and then suddenly you can't email to 80% of the email addresses in the world for months.
Start with a Signal and Discord bridge, they are very stable. Later perhaps you can get WhatsApp and Telegram working. I know it doesn't bring the other people over, but it's very convenient to have them in one app on your side.
My wife asked my mom what made her decide to marry my dad - which is something I never thought to ask - and my mom said that nobody else asked her. They've been together now for 49 years or something.
I disagree. I tried to cross post to the silos for 11 years https://jeena.net/notes/1 and I couldn't move anyone to an alternative platform. Cross posting only legitimizes the other platform and gives them free content to exploit.
What did you use before and how did you find Lemmy?