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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in reply to four.php • • •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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in reply to lobingera • • •@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.
Adam Steer
in reply to four.php • • •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.
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in reply to four.php • • •Agree, my reaction was to the boosted comment and i was missing the start of the thread ...
... 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 ..."
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in reply to four.php • • •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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in reply to four.php • • •✧✦Catherine✦✧
in reply to four.php • • •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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in reply to ✧✦Catherine✦✧ • • •Davi Ottenheimer
in reply to four.php • • •agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.
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in reply to four.php • • •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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in reply to four.php • • •Done. All statically generated with no cookies and no JS too.
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in reply to four.php • • •I get the saltiness. The sheer amount of local businesses in my area with NO WEBSITE, but a Facebook page is too high.
It may seem petty to some, but I have decided to do what I can to avoid businesses with Facebook as their main online presence.
P C
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in reply to four.php • • •no, it's not.
it would be nice if you could point us in the right direction, though.
i ask as a former, very loyal Wordpress user.
James Just James
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in reply to four.php • • •The most stupid thing that I see pretty often is for an open source project putting all the resources in Discord (changelog or guide for ex). And of course these things aren't accessible somewhere else (for example, the fucking git where the files are !!! )
It's very rare to see this bad behavior for solid projects, but for "little" thing like game mods, it's very common
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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in reply to four.php • • •White Mirror - Why a step backwards might be the way forward
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in reply to four.php • • •remember when Microsoft word would let you export the document as an .html web page so you could just save it to your site and link to it?
Good ole days.
Lynn McAlister UE
in reply to four.php • • •Yes! I used to work at a public library. There was a server crash or something and the central 'local history' site that area library's used to make their photos etc. available crashed. So the director set up ours on a Facebook site. I had a fit. Why should our patrons, whose taxes pay for library access, be forced to sign up for a proven predatory platform in order to take advantage of that access?!!!??!!!!! That's the antithesis of what a public library is! (Fortunately the director who replaced him agreed with me and changed this.)
My husband and I have just decided that, if your menu or company information requires me to go onto Facebook/X/whatever, you don't get my business.
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in reply to four.php • • •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.
Mx Amber Alex (she/it) 😷
in reply to four.php • • •I used to live in a place where the municipality had a big fat link to an .ics file on their website with all the bins pickup dates. One click, got it in my calendar software.
It could be that fucking easy.
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in reply to four.php • • •Ottawa has an app called "Collection" where you can check what kind of trash is supposed to go in what kind of bin, and get a schedule tailored to your home address that will notify you when it's time to put your bins out or when your pickup will be affected by a holiday. It's great, albeit, an app when I'd prefer less of those in my life.
But ... in the last 6 months or so (probably around when the recycling pickup was outsourced and some people's schedule changed) people were upset about missing pickups in my neighbourhood facebook group, so now someone posts a screenshot of what the next day's pickup will be in the facebook group each week, which by nature of facebook, appears in my feed some time in the several days following when the pickup has already happened....
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Unknown parent • • •@NatureMC @niccolo I think you're missing my point? I'm saying that e-mail newsletters aren't a replacement for a website with an RSS feed; I'm saying that an e-mail newsletter doesn't fulfill "make a website."
I don't think it's bad to *also* have a newsletter?