@jk very much agree
I get an email whenever someone I follow on itch.io or bandcamp publishes a new thing, but that's far from ideal, twitter/masto etc are useless for this because it just gets drowned by all the other stuff, blogs+RSS would fit the bill but that obviously hasn't taken off (meaning there are issues to investigate)...
it's also bad for people who produce stuff because the current solution (maintaining multiple social media accounts so the algorithms don't ignore your announcement post when you release something) is just unsustainable
@emptyfortress @jk What's actually wrong with mailing lists? I've always thought email was a decent solution to the problem.
@scale @emptyfortress @jk both email and RSS are great solutions to the problem but they are being deliberately strangled because they don't have the paid advertising platform capabilities that centralized garbage has
