To any & all people who have made Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American" identify properly as articles from her #Substack in #Pocket: Thank you! I notice they show up properly on my Libra 2's list of Pocket articles to read now.

#subscriptions #MailingLists #newsletter #newsletters #ereader #reading #Kobo

@izaya Quite a few are in-fact lamenting idiotic projects (and communities) moving to Discord when it is an awful alternative #forums or #MailingLists and utterly unsuitable for the purpose.

It is also #proprietary platform garbage that actively tries to frustrate #interoperability.

Hey MastoFriends! I'm looking for a #MailProvider that respects #privacy , and that supports #CustomDomains , #CatchAll and small #MailingLists (for example, family@domain.com delivers the mail to me@domain.com and wife@domaine.com).

Any recommendations? Thank you!

@lmorchard

I clearly missed an entire thing here. What was wrong with #RSS feeds and #mailinglists and #blogs?

@davew @timbray @acedtect

@zens @rq Yes, they address some of the major flaws of centralized issue systems as well: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prevent-censorship/

#MailingLists #Censorship #CensorshipResistance #Programming

@Hyolobrika @BrodieOnLinux In that case I would still recommend using some in-repository bug-tracking such as https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug, so that loss of the hosting instance for whatever reason doesn't kill the project.

The usual answer of #MailingLists https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prevent-censorship/ & a #PublicInbox archive is also applicable to #AnonymousNetworks, but requires more setup. Using some of the NNTP servers on those networks for duplicating also works.

What are some interesting #mailinglists for #FOSS projects that you know?

I noticed slowly, slowly my personal inboxes have become nothing but a spam net, or associated with problems (i.e. something went wrong with what I bought or use, and I have to complain / request support). I want to at least change my mood towards it, and make it more interesting again. I was thinking that mailing lists could try to catalize it, since I already use a feed reader for the news.

Recommendations?

@PeterCxy @chjara That's pretty unfortunate. I like the #email-first approach it took.

I still use his article on #MailingLists (https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prevent-censorship/) with the #YoutubeDL #DMCA shitshow as a reference in conversations for why more #Github-like alternatives are a bad idea.

@robryk @rysiek #MailingLists & #Usenet suggest to me that just considering replies to a root or its children, recursively, as a thread would be just fine.

At this point it's purely a #UI concern.

@nus @atomicpoet As far as examples of largely instance-agnostic precedents go, I'd say that #Usenet and #Fidonet could already both do just fine so long as some means of authenticating messages to a given user were to be used.

Even bridged #MailingLists are a good example.

The common thread is that they all just care about messages, ofc.

I'll need to take a look at the #ActivityPub spec again for just why porting between instances doesn't work when one is dead/not present to cooperate.

@donkeyblam @juliana It's basically a replicated/decentralized/federated hierarchical #BBS using formats fairly similar to #MailingLists but with some better protocols & standards around them.

There are some mentions in these articles: https://secushare.org/pubsub https://www.complete.org/usenet/

It lends itself well to intermittent, low-bandwidth & high-latency connections, which makes it particularly suitable for use with limited resources.

@inquiline @Carwil @aristeon Having never really used Twitter (registration on Tor without #PersonallyIdentifyingInformation was crippled and so was it more generally in my country), I don't really get much of the desire for that feature as it seems to me that #hyperlinks have provided sufficient referencing capacity since #Usenet and #MailingLists.

That also ties into the notification aspect, as you can't really be sure you'll be used as reference solely within #Mastodon or the #Fediverse.

@seattlekim

The patio is technically off limits too, but, ya know, *nudge,* *nudge.* *wink*

We'd pack the place with dogs doing events with groups like the #HumaneSociety and we'd have to push out all the info by word of mouth and mailing lists :-) #Newsletters and #mailingLists are your friend - harder for the authorities to monitor :-)

What does everyone use for their website #newsletters or #MailingLists services these days? I used to use #MailChimp and it's.. fine? But I'm curious what else is popular.

I'd like one for my blog on the rare occasion someone wants an email notification about posts and stuff, but I don't expect a huge amount of subscribers so something free or reasonably priced is preferable to start, but I am fine paying later if needed.

I've been enjoying the simplicity of collaboring over #mailinglists and #git .patch files. #opensource

Wait… do #MailingLists still exist?

It feels like that’s the decentralised alternative to #Reddit (as a community, not as a link aggregator), no?

Although not the first — #mailingLists were one of the early online social-networks on the #oldInternet .

Although not the first — #mailingLists were one of the early online social-networks on the #oldInternet .

Maybe this could also have negative effects for #opensource related content when it’s not that visible on mainstream platforms anymore. This reminds me on „nerd“ platforms like #irc, #mailinglists etc. where no casual user would have a look at.

@jbf1755

Twitter was not the first Internet grouping mechanism. We've gone through #USENET, #MailingLists, #IRC, #BBS's and more. There's only one difference with Twitter.

It was for profit. We weren't the community. It was a collective mirage cultivated by the #Algorithm and the dollars behind it.

#Mastodon is easy days Twitter. The communities you mention didn't start then. They evolved from the personal connections of individuals.

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