Jeff Gerstmann

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I think about this problem way too often, and the solution is to cross post what makes sense where it makes sense. With Twitter seemingly imploding tho, idk where everyone's gonna migrate to, and it's annoying.

I think your style of using different services would be well served by a landing page that embedded some of that content; like the linktree but where people can actually see/play some of the options. So like an embed that automatically grabs, say, the latest youtube video, another with the latest podcast episode, and a prominent banner link to the patreon with a bit of an explanation of what's there.

there's a few things around for post syndication with various levels of compatibility. you could probably just put a wordpress up, hook up syndication plugins for all the different services you post on and only let those plugins post to it. that will prob get you like 80% there

I recommend a personal website of pure html.

Reading your piece on 'the old white men who claimed the Internet' last month, it gave me a very specific jolt of nostalgia for eagerly absorbing think pieces in the early days of LiveJournal. Applying the brakes and scrolling a single interesting post rather than blazing through an entire timeline, feels like an act from a simpler era of being online. One that is rapidly being lost over time, thanks mostly to the crushing advances of socials timelines clogged with barely a sentence worth of insight or retort, that have become the norm in how the majority absorb the thoughts and opinions of others.

Cohost takes me back to being an excitable netizen in the '90s (don't laugh, I'm certain I proudly identified myself as such at least once). Stumbling across a blog for the first time and having walls of text to dive into? It's nice to have a site bring those feelings back, and it seems like a great fit for what you have to offer as a side dish to your podcast and video content.

In my experience, linktrees are only as useful as the upper-most link because that's the one I'm assuming the creator is putting most of their stock into. If that is anything other than a direct path to where the bulk of your content lives, then I am reluctant to drill down any further. This is when it becomes sticky where, as in your case, you have multiple content hoses to wrangle. I can only really suggest running links from within pods/vids back to here or wherever else you choose to call home, but that posting your written content in any more than one place may become tedious for both you and your audience to navigate.

Best of luck on finding your new path.

I'd rather go to The Jeff Gerstmann Website that may link to several other websites than go to The Jeff Gerstmann Third Party Website Profile that you may choose to leave at some point. People who think "I need to go to Twitter to see the latest Jeff Gerstmann updates" are going to start thinking there aren't any if you stop posting there for example. It's best to have your landing page be something you have actual control over.

imo jeff.zone is the fucking best url ever, and you don't really need to do much to it. I know in tumblr you can make an individual page the homepage and then your blog is just, like, a "blog" option on the menu. If I was you I'd just make a landing page that was like a little summary followed by a bootleg linktree to whatever you want to link to (probably patreon as the number one).

linktree is fucked cause I think tiktok and some other sites treat it like spam. Doing the tumblr landing page thing would let you bypass that and continue doing everything the same way you're already doing it, just with a single easy place with an easy-to-remember url.

Anyway, just my thoughts. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.