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The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concer

The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concerts, etc... Any chance these move over? I'm not looking for some great community, I just enjoy timely posts I guess.

cen4 2y ago
Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.
- duxup 2y ago
  It’s not like local weather guy is likely to get anyone on just his website or such these days.
  - cen4 2y ago
    So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are. Does Bluesky change this dynamic?
    - duxup 2y ago
      I do not know. But I know the dynamic of local weather guy with his own site is likely not a winning play.
    - tmottabr 2y ago
      if only there was some kind of tool that allow producers to cross post to multiple social medias at once..
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Feels like there is a need for a message broker platform, where these local accounts can sign up and push messages out to whomever wants them via socials, SMS, RSS, whatevs. Buffer meets Svix for social/messaging PubSub or something similar vs Yet Another Platform.
  - antupis 2y ago
    Mastodon would be perfect for these but there is no critical mass at least yet.
    - sitzkrieg 2y ago
      mastodon is a fediverse client
112233 2y ago
Please share once you find out! In $EUROPEAN_CAPITAL here it seems local govt. runs on twitter and facebook. Since I got banned from twitter for following those during covid (with no posts or likes made) I kinda wish there was a rss feed or mailing list for information posted by official institutions. bsky would do.
slyall 2y ago
One way people here could help with that is to improve posting tools. I have a couple of informational bots. It's a lot easy for me when I can just download a cli tool and run that to post than if I have to signup to a platform as a developer and then write custom code to login via OAuth. Actually if I have to write code to talk to OAuth I probably won't bother. Currently using bsky to post to BlueSky and paying for IFTTT because I have to make time to sit down and get twurl working.

cen4 2y ago

Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.

duxup 2y ago
It’s not like local weather guy is likely to get anyone on just his website or such these days.
- cen4 2y ago
  So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are. Does Bluesky change this dynamic?
  - duxup 2y ago
    I do not know. But I know the dynamic of local weather guy with his own site is likely not a winning play.
  - tmottabr 2y ago
    if only there was some kind of tool that allow producers to cross post to multiple social medias at once..
toomuchtodo 2y ago
Feels like there is a need for a message broker platform, where these local accounts can sign up and push messages out to whomever wants them via socials, SMS, RSS, whatevs. Buffer meets Svix for social/messaging PubSub or something similar vs Yet Another Platform.
- antupis 2y ago
  Mastodon would be perfect for these but there is no critical mass at least yet.
  - sitzkrieg 2y ago
    mastodon is a fediverse client

112233 2y ago

Please share once you find out! In $EUROPEAN_CAPITAL here it seems local govt. runs on twitter and facebook. Since I got banned from twitter for following those during covid (with no posts or likes made) I kinda wish there was a rss feed or mailing list for information posted by official institutions. bsky would do.

slyall 2y ago

One way people here could help with that is to improve posting tools. I have a couple of informational bots. It's a lot easy for me when I can just download a cli tool and run that to post than if I have to signup to a platform as a developer and then write custom code to login via OAuth. Actually if I have to write code to talk to OAuth I probably won't bother. Currently using bsky to post to BlueSky and paying for IFTTT because I have to make time to sit down and get twurl working.