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❓ Is Fediverse turning out to be "yet another" communication thing just for #output almost only and not really input? ❓

#Help #Fediverse not be another Twitter?

Pay people more #input and attention... ?

Couldn't we use this place towards actually helping people change? Personally hand-holding in whatever they / you want...?

❓ Are you just another user killing time and not much at the end like another Playstation? ❓

#MASTODON ETC IS GOOD BUT...

This space in itself is 100% ⭐ super ⭐ to be here and total respect for how many hours makes this a success,

BUT we almost had the same or similar as #newsletters + #forums + emails + #IRC or #ICQ etc - so how is this going to be different here ? ❓

❓ Mastodon etc as just a better front end and not actually full of people changing history? ❓

The 'next level' is to actually #help each other #create change and #curate others more personally.

Left alone we suck or get sucked into the engine pipes of other things like #Capitalism and plans from #Plutocracy who spit us out the other sides when our batteries are tired and dead -

Give each other more listening time and even humour them - You might learn something and spend less time in the mono-work you do elsewhere (#Tech etc is also a big time suck and not people focused)

The idea is 1-to-1 / 1-to-many
+ many-to-many (all of them)

1/ #Friendship first

2/ #Work together (non-state work) second

3/ #Cats along the way but not just using it for #Caturday ❗

Yes do mix up the order also !

Pay each other more specific #attention... like you do you cats!

Show a little mo' #love / solidarity to #humans and find them to offer help / contrast / change...

Stay classy, stay positive... stay active on the Fediverse. #FreeSchool

Dear company-X, no I did not signup for your newsletter. No, my interaction with system-Y does not mean I *wanted* the newsletter. No, you having it in your TOC does not mean I am *happy* with you doing so.

Seriously if companies would stop chasing vanity number-go-up metrics and instead focus on making customers happy, *that* would bring value.

#Newsletters #Spam #Email #Consent

My plans:

Web sites for #political #organizing on the Fediverse. Support #Fediverse based #newsletters with the curated news. Fetch trusted RSS feeds and Fediverse time lines, curate them, and publish the best ones.

The user can choose

- Daily or weekly curated news feeds. ~7 items in each posting.

-All the links in the toot, or just the titles, and a single link to the appropriate web page with images.

- available with or without notification.

I already have much of this software.

I just had my first tentative experiment with writing a post using Ghost. I like it!

The interface is beautifully minimal. So much less visual noise to wade though compared to SubStack, and so much less clicking and waiting when moving from page to page. It does pretty much everything useful that SubStack does, plug they're actively working on ActivityPub integration, so we can follow Ghost publications from the fediverse.

activitypub.ghost.org/

#blogging #newsletters #Ghost #ActivityPub

With the media industry's precarity worse than ever, independent #journalists are increasingly relying on subscription #newsletters But this fragmentation may be making us less #media literate.

@andreagrimes on the a-la-carte-ification of #news & #opinion

damemagazine.com/2023/10/17/ge…

Getting the News Has Never Been More Complicated

Spreadsheets are not my natural habitat. I do letters, not figures. But like a polar bear swinging from the trees or an orca flip-flopping across the Sahara, I recently spent several days immersed in a sea of Google Sheets cells running numbers on th…

^{Andrea Grimes (Dame Magazine)}

Improve your #productivity with your #browser and #mail combination 😎

Skim-read your #newsletters, pick out what looks most interesting to you, and put them in the Reading List for later.

Just right-click on a link in a message and add it to the reading list. Voilà! 🤩

Find more tips here 👇
vivaldi.com/blog/how-to/5-reas…

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#news #newstodon #fediverse #journalism #newsletters #texas #news

From time to time, I have to send emails to various people, e.g. the members of my laboratory. Until now, I was using Google Groups.

Since I was frustrated about the functions of #Google #Groups, I was looking for a #selfhosted #mailinglist #software.

The installation on my own server was very easy.

There are some problems remaining, such as my posts identified as #spam; and the missing feature to reply to the group (like a real mailing list; I have to look for a #forum software, I guess..).

Nevertheless, I am very happy with this solution and may even use listmonk for #newsletters, #emailmarketing, etc.

#trade-free @TROM

listmonk - Free and open source self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Send e-mail campaigns from a powerful dashboard. High performance and features packed into one app.

^listmonk.app

It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary, or you can do a simple Docker install. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store.

See Setting up listmonk, an open-source newsletter & mailing list manager - Yasoob Khalid

#technology #opensource #selfhosting #mailinglist #newsletters

Hi everyone! 👋
I have been using Mailchimp for my mailing list for a while and even though it is great, it is super expensive. I have 5000+ people in my list and that puts me in their $78 plan. I send the newsletter very rarely and don’t really earn anything from the mailing list so it was really hard for me to justify the $78. I had recently integrated Amazon SES with a project and found out that SES gives you a free 50,000 email sending quota per month.

gadgeteer.co.za/setting-listmo…