# A permanent place to post

By [junglanml](https://paragraph.com/@junglanml) · 2025-07-16

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Like many people, I post content on the Internet. Often I willingly yield that content to digital mega-corporations, like LinkedIn, Meta and X. I would like to move off those to platforms where I have more control, like Farcaster, BlueSky and Mastodon. But that is not where my people are. And sometimes, I want to share the same post in multiple places.

I believe that all of us should have the option of posting once, in a place where we have some control, and then at our discretion, sharing that post with our audience in other places.

I am trying out Mirror as my permanent place to post.

Why Mirror:

*   It’s independent of the major social platforms and has no algorithm and no ads.
    
*   It is specific to content, so it suits my purpose of post in one place, discuss in others.
    
*   The posts are stored permanently and transparently. They are , and cryptographically verified as by me. I am not relying on a platform to preserve them. No-one can edit them or take them down.
    
*   Mirror and its [new owner Paragraph](https://dev.mirror.xyz/_JH3B2prRmU23wmzFMncy9UOmYT7mHj5wdiQVUolT3o) [claim fewer rights](https://paragraphxyz.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-10d21a9b6c0d80ee9b39e8dbc2e605c6) over my content than major platforms claim.
    

Posts made via Mirror [do not reside on Mirror](https://dev.mirror.xyz/GjssNdA6XK7VYynkvwDem3KYwPACSU9nDWpR5rei3hw). They reside on [Arweave](https://www.arweave.org/) which is open source and decentralised.

Of course, my posts here are even more available for others to use than my posts on centralised socials. I prefer that to explicitly granting arbitrary rights to a platform. I have yet to figure out how licensing, minting and NFTs work on Mirror but I harbour an aspiration to charge LLMs to train on this.

The permanence of posts on this platform lends new power to the _Publish_ button. It indeed means I am creating one facet of a Mirror in which the World can permanently see me. I like how it slows me down to consider how I want you to see me.

I know that by posting here I gain little reach. I hope however, to gain greater reach by syndicating to other platforms.

Let’s see how this goes

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*Originally published on [junglanml](https://paragraph.com/@junglanml/a-permanent-place-to-post)*