now also as newsletter, https://mfioretti.substack.com/

A: RSS of course. Seriously. See https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/09/rss-is-still-great.-and-need...

Pick your sources, COMPLAIN if they do not publish an RSS feeds, and read "news" including posts from personal blogs, through an aggregator. At YOUR pace, without tracking and pushing.

While we are at this, wy/how is Twitch "completely unusable" ?h Just curious, really.

A: a scam. The existential threat is us, see https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/you-are-all-getting-this-st...

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/you-are-all-getting-this-st...

At least 2/3 major banks still allow full use of online banking from desktop computers, and at least in one case I know for sure it's 100% Linux compatible. You ALSO need the hardware thingy that generates new numeric codes every time you push its button, to get an authorization code to e.g. make payments. But no smartphone

Above all, what I report is just an example of a general problem anyway. If they were only on LinkedIn, and mixing one work-related post every 50 about what cocktail they had last Saturday, what would "wanting LinkedIn, not Twitter, change"?

I wish this were mandatory.

On Twitter, when it still made sense to use it (no, it's not about Musk, it sucked by shadowbanning almost everybody who wouldn't pay well before Musk came), several people whom I should really follow for my work basically FORCED ME TO UNFOLLOW THEM, because:

- their work-related tweets were ACTUALLY important for MY job (papers they published, slides from their talks, professional conversations...)

- but they buried them under garbage, meaning every work tweet was lost in 20/30 other tweets about food porn, what movie they were watching, what shirt they got for Christmas, and tons of other totally personal, totally irrelevant shit that was impossible to filter out, all coming as one stream

No matter how relevant their work tweet were, extracting them from that endless drivel just was not worth the time.

Me, I fear what is facing a serious threat is USEFUL online search...

I already have a blog, want to keep it online as it is, and I have no problem writing with my current editor software. What I am looking for is a way to publish NEW content FROM NOW ON:

1. FIRST as newsletter, with its own associated blog. Just because that seems the only medium left that people who do read a whole article still tolerate

2. THEN, 1/2 week a post has been published there, migrate it out of that platform and into my existing blog, leaving in the platform just a "This post migrated here, just click" notice. Because that's the only way to guarantee that that content lives as long as possible, always at the same URL.

Still, I may use it if it turns out that Beehiv does allow points 3 and 4 of the same post. Do you know what the answer to them is?

Thx

I ALREADY have a blog, with plenty of content. If enough people saw it and told me "it sucks, just stop", I would accept it, nobody owns me anything. BUT...

The reason to look for a newsletter is that as things stand now, I have plenty of proofs that almost nobody ever gets to even *see* it. THAT is the problem I need to solve.

It's the fact that these days:

1: almost nobody uses RSS, because they're sincerely convinced that "it stopped working when Google killed Reader" (I've lost count of how many times I've heard this specific bit of falsehood)

2: on social media, almost nobody bothers to click and read the conclusion of any article at its original URL. And I can't stand anymore having to give answers like "please note that the third paragraph of this post that I shared explicitly answers what you just asked"

3: point 2) would not change at all by switching to another CMS

4: points 2 and 3 are irrelevant anyway because Twitter, FB etc... just shadowban whoever does not pay them. As I say, I have plenty of proofs that almost nobody ever gets to SEE what I post there. Even stuff that should surely get through, e.g. polite notification that there was a typo in a post, or requests to provide further reading on some topic

Summarizing, if the only way left these days to be sure that people do SEE AND READ all I wrote from top to bottom, at least once or two is a newsletter... so be it. But it has to be something optimized for "newslettering", that facilitates as much as possible to find subscribers, and SURELY allows points 3 and 4 of my original question. So what about them?

Thx

I am considering starting a newsletter+blog on one of the platforms created just for this purpose. Main goals would be to give much more visibility than today to all my activities, not just the newsletter, and of course make some extra money if possible.

After some research, Substack and Beehiiv seem the best candidates, but I am not sure yet, and there may be others.

Ideally, I would need a platform that:

0. supports paid subscriptions

1. supports comments

2. has no *fixed* costs

3. allows *migrating* every post to a personal blog, after a month or so, leaving in the platform just a message like "this post is now available

4. lets me say below each post or email "I also do other stuff, and you can support that other with donations"

IIUC, ONLY Substack checks the first 3 marks, but (even AFTER reading their Publisher Agreement) I am not sure if it allows n. 4 or not.

Every feedback is welcome, including pointers to other platforms that I may have missed!

Thanks!

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