Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

5 days ago by ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to c/fediverse

Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

cheese_greater 8 points 5 days ago

Honestly, it would be incredible if they tried their hand at the Reddit/Lemmy format, the Twitter shit never grabbed me

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yogthos 15 points 5 days ago

I actually think substack format would be a better fit. It's already a blogging platform at its core with good discoverability. That's exactly what sites like substack provide and why they're popular for blogging. Reddit/Lemmy is more of a news aggregator where people post links and discuss them.

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cheese_greater 2 points 5 days ago

Substack is less explorable tho, the beauty of Reddit is you can search any keyword for a subreddit and its basically guranteed to exist or not far from easily predictable variations therof.

I never found I wanted to go too far from the current q&a or tutorial I was searching for specifically

Their search algorithm cant be worse tho, I'll give them that. Reddi's is absolute dogshit, its only saving grace is how you can search in the specific subreddits to shave off more keywords that would otherwise pollute or overcomplicate your results

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yogthos 8 points 5 days ago

Reddit does have the advantage of being a single site where search is easy to do in a shared db. Since Mastodon is federated, discoverability is going to be inherently worse as requests have to propagate through the network. But I think that for blogs it's less of an issue since you tend to follow people for their writing.

In my opinion, Lemmy is already a great replacement for Reddit. So, it makes sense for Mastodon to focus on its core functionality which is blogging, while Lemmy can fill the Reddit niche in the fediverse.

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Niquarl 1 point 4 days ago

Something I don't understand is if an email is sent for each new toot. Some people toot a lot. Or does it send threads in a single go or in multiple emails?

Can someone choose to send some toots by email only?

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yogthos 2 points 4 days ago

yeah, seems like getting a daily summary would make more sense

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