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by Operative0198 1252 days ago
Social media profile notifications. Web push notifications. Good ol trusty RSS...
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celsoazevedo 1252 days ago
> Social media profile notifications

Requires you to create an account on that specific platform, plus we have a few examples (eg: Facebook, YouTube) where the platform might decide to not notify everyone if the content isn't "worthy".

Edit: And since timelines now are curated by some algorithm, you can't trust it to show you all new content.

> Web push notifications

Abused by many to send you crap, not always easy to keep everything working when moving to another device. It's disabled on my browser.

> Good ol trusty RSS

I like RSS. And this blog offers a feed: https://www.bigfeels.club/public-articles?format=rss

Email... maybe not trendy, but it works okay.

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Operative0198 1252 days ago
> Requires you to create an account on that specific platform, plus we have a few examples (eg: Facebook, YouTube) where the platform might decide to not notify everyone if the content isn't "worthy".

Precisely. One downside is you have to have an account on the platform to receive notifications but this can be overlooked by the fact that SM platforms have X10/0 reach (potential) comparatively. Besides the type of person who wants to engage audiences via email subscriptions isn't necessarily eager to post unsavory content.

> Edit: And since timelines now are curated by some algorithm, you can't trust it to show you all new content.

No. The point is to receive alerts for new content. No sorting is done for this list as far as am aware of.

> Abused by many to send you crap, not always easy to keep everything working when moving to another device. It's disabled on my browser.

I think if we are being fair, we can say email has been abused far more (famous Nigerian prince) than push notifications maybe ever will.

> I like RSS. And this blog offers a feed

Yes. But none of this is immediately clear from the article nor from the main page. I honestly wouldn't know there's an RSS feed if you hadn't posted it.

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