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Interesting; I was not aware of TinyLetter. Though it doe nothing to address the use of Facebook for interpersonal communication, I guess they're referring to t
by ssivark 11y ago
Interesting; I was not aware of TinyLetter. Though it doe nothing to address the use of Facebook for interpersonal communication, I guess they're referring to the use of facebook to nurture an audience and reach out to them en masse.
Would folks consider this approach a practical replacement for RSS-like services, to reach out to a broader audience? Since most ("lay")people don't seem interested in going out of their way to subscribe to RSS feeds; seems like they'd be happy to subscribe in a manner where (more!) things will land up in their inbox.
- themodelplumber 11y agoTinyLetter is a really funky thing, and as you say it's more about nurturing an audience. What's special about it is more the way people have adopted it than anything. Like a public corkboard, its size and functionality belies its usefulness to a wide group (the analogy stops there, as these emails are one-way). Most of the TinyLetter emails that I get are just different, like a special recipe almost. I've been subscribing to tons of RSS feeds for business blogging recently, and while there are similarities, there's just no way I'd accept TinyLetter as a substitute for a feed. First there's the awkward idea of a gigantic email folder hierarchy to store it all. Then there are things like enclosures, a Youtube video, mp3 files, etc. Also, I've noticed that email links (view this in your browser!) tend to rot about 10x as fast and are not indexed by e.g. archive.org. So I dunno, it's just different tech.