[E-trademarks] Alternative to Twitter/X ?

Tue Jul 23 12:03:21 EDT 2024

What a reminder this is that a person can learn a lot by paying 
attention to postings in listservs.

Rebecca reminds all of us that there are a dozen ways that an RSS reader 
(Wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS>) is far better 
than Twitter (X) as a way to follow somebody's postings.

So for example anybody who wants to follow The TTABlog ought to simply 
add "https://thettablog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" to one's RSS 
news feed.  If you do this, you end up with a very high quality "feed" 
that only serves up what you want, and that avoids the cesspool that is 
Twitter (X).

Rebecca probably added John's feed URL to her RSS reader a long time 
ago.  Only just now, prompted by Rebecca's posting, did I think to add 
John's feed URL to my RSS reader.

Only just now, prompted by Rebecca's posting, did I add an RSS icon and 
link to my own blog.  You can see it here.  I ought to have done this 
long ago, but I only thought to do it now, thanks to Rebecca.

John, I don't see an RSS icon and link on your blog.  It would be a good 
idea to add it.

On 7/23/2024 8:42 AM, Tushnet, Rebecca via E-trademarks wrote:
> For my own reading, my current choice is Bluesky + a bunch of RSS 
> feeds, including John's indispensable TTABlog.
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> FWIW: I now have automatic crossposting from my blog to Mastodon, 
> Bluesky, an email subscription via Mailchimp (free account because I 
> don't have that many email subscribers), RSS feed, and LinkedIn. It 
> took a bit of kludging, but If This Then That is really good at most 
> of it.
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> Rebecca Tushnet
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> behalf of Edward Timberlake via E-trademarks 
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> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] Alternative to Twitter/X ?
> There's no shortage of alternatives (e.g., Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, 
> maybe even LinkedIn?), but none of them comes close to what Twitter 
> used to be like . . . of course, neither does Twitter (you can't make 
> me call it "X") at this point.
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> Sincerely,
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM Heidi Tandy via E-trademarks 
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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>     I’ve been on threads for a year (heidieight) and it’s a solid
>     platform although it doesn’t have the same notification process
>     that Twitter does.
>     FWIW one of the only reasons I’ve stayed on Twitter actively is
>     because of your tweets there. Well, that and the national
>     hurricane center notifications. I am a Floridian, after all.
>
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>     On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 6:53 AM John L. Welch via E-trademarks
>     <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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>         I’ve been tweeting my blog posts for many years now, but I am
>         fed up with the increasingly vile content on X/Twitter.
>
>         Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
>
>         JLW
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