Cause people actually use twitter.
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jmp242@sopuli.xyz 8 months agoI don’t understand why they can’t jusy write on their website or publish an email newsletter or RSS feed. Why do we need anything like Twitter for organizations?
Zorque@kbin.social 8 months ago
jsh@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
NPR does that, actually. Their newsletters are the only ones in my inbox that I actually read.
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because people want to interact with it, leave a comment. It’s not nearly as satisfying to yell at cloud, it is as effective tho.
…And they can capitalize on that interaction.
tdawg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because providing a central location for people to communicate about things on via an information exchange system is clearly what people want. The issue is that it isn’t held up and maintained by society at large but by private interests. Stuff like mastadon have a chance at changing this, but we’ll see
TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Correction; it’s what some people want. Most people pay very little attention to Twitter, X or Mastodon. These systems are very much about providing a way for media and tech elite to talk to each other.
tdawg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry but no. Nearly the entire English speaking world was using twitter at one point. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not what people want
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fundamentally microblogs are different than all of those things. RSS is too nerdy for regularly people, who are already struggling just with the idea that they have to pick a server on mastodon, and RSS readers are not at all designed for short-form content like it. Email newsletters are roughly the same, and I really don’t want every tweet in the form of an email, that would get real, real annoying. Then you toss in that both are one-way communications. And finally, you have to go seeking all of those things in a significantly different way than when you than just saying “I’ll search twitter for GE, I’ll bet I’ll find them there, and they’re going to likely be more responsive than any other channel because it’s all in public.”
Generally speaking, I really hope that outfits like NPR and the brands and such don’t all just go to Threads and instead choose to really own their identity and self-host on federated services.
jmp242@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I guess I’ve just never seen any value in microblogs at all, which probably explains my confusion lol. I don’t want a 160 character post from NPR about anything.
I agree with you about self hosting, I just don’t actually see for something like NPR what federated services do for them. They’re already the central source of what they want to publish. They have a website. Why complicate things? While I like an ad-free experience of Lemmy etc - I just don’t get what NPR would get beyond having a comments section (discus?) on their news or opinion stories.
The best I can see is that it’s essentially ads for NPR, but then it both seems to me like … well … buy ads, and kind of a sleazy thing to throw up stuff onto Mastodon in the hopes - what? People learn that NPR exists? Product placement into the fediverse?
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
NPR does maintain a number of good RSS feeds ( feeds.npr.org ), which are being simulated onto Mastodon by press.coop. They are doing this for a ton of news organizations: press.coop/directory
Zimeron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It doesn’t work well though, it posts week old stories quite often and posts a lot of posts all at once.