Every article I write lives on my own site first. A copy goes up on dev.to a day or two later, and that copy reliably gets more readers than the original does. One piece has 106 views over there. My own analytics can't honestly tell me how many humans read it here, which is a separate mess I wrote about last week.
So I am deliberately publishing my best work somewhere with more traffic than my site, under a domain I don't own. The thing that makes this a syndication strategy instead of a slow act of self-harm is one field in the dev.to API:
const canonicalDi = (slug) => `https://marcobellingeri.dev/en/writing/${slug}`;
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