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>>riidom+(OP)
This lesson extends to almost everything in life. Too many people wrap up their goals and aspirations to things that are really someone elses thing at the end of the day. It frequently doesn't end well.

This is a really great article.

>>anm89+23
Well it's easy to say "don't build your castle in other people's kingdom", but when 95% of people live in someone else's kingdom and like it there it's much harder to actually pull that off.

The author laments content creators trying to bring viewers into their discord or twitter instead of personal website but conveniently ignores the fact that people are much more willing to go to and likely to return to sites they already visit.

I don't think content creators are especially happy to be reliant on youtube, or twitch, or whatever other site they're on. But the reality is that's where the people are. When creators have left those platforms they've consistently lost the vast majority of their viewers, because the reality is that there are plenty of other creators on the platform for viewers to migrate to.

>>colinm+Ud
The article discusses that. The idea is go where the people are and try to get them to come to your own kingdom. Use their platform to advertise your platform. I'm sure this is harder than it sounds, but it's pretty amazing the size of the organizations that don't even seem to be trying.

>>svacha+bu
Well the thing is it's probably much easier to do this incrementally. If you put a link to your site on your youtube videos your conversion is going to be terrible. If you put links to your twitter and discord it will be better. Then you can try to get people on your discord to go to your site since they're already deeply invested in your community. Anyway, building your castle in as many communities as possible seems like a much better defensive tactic than spinning your wheels trying to create a new kingdom.