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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨realcaseyrollins@hilariouschaos.com⁩ to ⁨fediverse@hilariouschaos.com⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/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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