https://www.buschnick.net/

... from around here (i'm loosely connected to research projects) the expectation is to have public info "visible" in "established social media" and this is an (imho) result of "search engines have degraded ..."

Hard agree, having done stuff in a research group doing routine insta posts. It's a grind, with few tangible results and the ever present risk of being stuck at a nazi bar. An institution hosted blog would have been /would be far better - for both comms reach and building a useful institutional record.

@lobingera

At https://www.euclid-ec.org

We have a project website. No accounts. No commenting. No cookies. No GDPR-relevant data storage. Soon a special RSS feed.

_Exactly_ because of this tendency towards apps, newsletters, feeds (or maybe because I was WWW-socialised in late 1993...).

Surely they all provide ICS or RSS feeds. Surely.

Ho ho ho, I had to write 2k+ lines of code, with custom scrapers for 112 web sites.

But as a matter of principle, I agree.

https://echtorff.org

earlier this morning i was talking at my screen about how the app developers should be filleted like a fish. that was probably too much (in fairness it was uber)

There's a lot of invisible effort that goes into making corporate social media do anything even remotely useful as an outreach tool.