As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade This is just salty enough.
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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
@xgranade like an ical?
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@xgranade like an ical?
@k Ideally!
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade I think the point is here is the "just". Webpages need more effort than postings
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade agree with everything but "newsletters" or even better RSS is an excellent way to stay in touch with people without needing social media.
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade Let's mandate age verification so that you need to make an account to view my website, too!
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@xgranade I think the point is here is the "just". Webpages need more effort than postings
@lobingera I don't really agree; so much of what I see is people bending over backwards working around whatever patterns some corporate middle manager thinks is good for engagement.
There's a lot of invisible effort that goes into making corporate social media do anything even remotely useful as an outreach tool.
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade seems like a normal amount of salt
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)
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
@xgranade agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.
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@xgranade agree with everything but "newsletters" or even better RSS is an excellent way to stay in touch with people without needing social media.
@niccolo RSS is a great thing to have on a website! It doesn't take setting up e-mail or gathering a lot of PII from readers that's then a liability for when something leaks!
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@niccolo RSS is a great thing to have on a website! It doesn't take setting up e-mail or gathering a lot of PII from readers that's then a liability for when something leaks!
@xgranade sure, but I'll take a newsletter over any form of social media ANY day!
But as a matter of principle, I agree.
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@xgranade sure, but I'll take a newsletter over any form of social media ANY day!
But as a matter of principle, I agree.
@niccolo That's fair, yeah. I personally find it a little annoying that newsletters became the norm, given that e-mail really works best as an interpersonal thing and not for broadcast, but still. Definitely splitting hairs at that point.
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@xgranade seems like a normal amount of salt
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)
@whitequark An excess of salt aimed at Uber doesn't seem all that excessive, no.
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@niccolo That's fair, yeah. I personally find it a little annoying that newsletters became the norm, given that e-mail really works best as an interpersonal thing and not for broadcast, but still. Definitely splitting hairs at that point.
@xgranade in my bubble, everyone is on social media and basically nobody uses newsletters. I wish it was the norm to complain about it and push people towards RSS!
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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
@xgranade As a part of my due diligence as "owner of a nightclub" one of the questions I often ask is, "what are other venues up to these days?" In order to answer that question, I wanted to assemble a calendar listing with all of the events happening at my town's other venues with capacities of our size or smaller.
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.
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
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...).
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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...).
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@k Ideally!
@xgranade Ha. And I thought I’m the outlier.
