Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

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• Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters, a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.

  My vision is that every user can use their account to become a spambot…

  Just think of it. A whole new set of accounts to manually add to your spam filter/unsub from.

  These guys are visionary.

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  • realcaseyrollins@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah but it’s cool cuz it’s open source and non-corporate

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  • airrow@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …innovative decentralized spam networks of AI-powered hyper-techno progress…

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• airrow@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  somthing random I was thinking about yesterday but we actually maybe need more “centralization” of some things… as much as I like decentralization

  or at least: I don’t have time to read everyone’s newsletter, but maybe only one good collection of newsletter(s)

  so, from many decentralized voices we need good aggregation of a few “curators”

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  • realcaseyrollins@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like an aggregation tool? You can have that without centralization. For example, I use online RSS feed readers to aggregate the feeds of various news sites. That’s not centralization, is it?

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    • airrow@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      aggregation + curation though

      aggregation: collecting together tons of stuff

      curation: sifting through it

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