Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)No, that's much better.
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You know what's sad? Is that in 2024 the simplist way to send a newsletter is substack.
Sendfox is amazingly simple and straighfroward, but web based. No app. You can't do much with the template, but that's fine to get that simplicity.
Beehiv is really good (its UX is like a mashup of substack and medium), but also web based and little much to configure for simple newsletters, but you do get to set up your email template and never have to touch it again if you don't want to.
So the instance I'd signed up to in... 2017 and was using as my main went down around about the time life came at me sideways - in mid jan, I guess.
I saw it was unsteady but was dealing with all the "Life" stuff.
It's permanenty gone. No option to transfer content.
Ouuf.
Annalee Newitz πJoining #mastodon has reminded me how much #UX is a form of community politics. Discussions over usability, searchability, federability (sounds awkward but you know what I mean) -- these reflect debates we are having right now in many aspiring democracies. Where do we want people to live? What will we build to make it easy to get around? What kinds of social services should be available? How do we manage borders? UX choices are political choices, and it's important to treat them as such.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Timeline cleanser. My kids made a new friend. Meet Larry the Squirrel. Every morning he comes and knocks on our back door eagerly waiting for food. My kids feed him and he scurries off. π
Zorin =^o.o^=@[email protected] One of the big problems with "the algorithm" for me and many others is that we simply STOPPED seeing content from people we want to see, and started seeing MORE content from people being reactionary, fandom drama, call-outs, and the like.
The algorithm made the experience a lot worse for me and others, and turned our timelines into a shit show.
I'm okay with some subtle algorithmic sorting, but rather then bringing conflict forward, to bring accounts forward we frequently interact with.
So Iβm just supposed to be ok with the fact that Wordpress uses block themes now and not try and recreate my old theme? ((Clears my plans for Saturday))
Chris TrottierI swear to god, journalists have become Big Social's PR department even as Big Social puts them out of business.
I've said this previously. With the old startup model, you might be able to capture significant marketshare for 20 years. You might even be one of the most valuable companies on the planet during that time. Hence, Meta.
But if you want something people will use indefinitely, you need to build a protocol.
Guess what? Corporations don't want to build protocols. Hence, a startup-driven version of the Fediverse will probably fail.
Thomas Baekdal