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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, thank you Rich. I'm
personally fine with the current system, but wouldn't be opposed
to something that works similarly. <br>
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I personally feel that Facebook is the devil's spawn. People love
it only because there's no good alternatives so far (if you're in
the desert with no water, you'll drink the sand). Yes, there are
plenty of alternatives but just about everyone is on Facebook and
many won't go anywhere else until just about everyone is there.<br>
<br>
The alternative would be social media that could also act pretty
much the same as the list for those who want to interact over
email. I know there are a lot of people who like the list as it
is. <br>
<br>
Rich knows that my company and I have been working on a social
media platform for local communities for five years (Itabix was
actually founded to create a local community website 20 years ago
but...well, long story). We're just about ready to start letting
people in to kick the tires, and I'm actually planning to ask for
help with this from HT'ers soon, I really need feedback on what
we've done, what needs improving, ideas for how it could be
better, and to have people using it for load testing who aren't
going to get upset with the rough edges of a beta, so if anyone is
interested please email me.<br>
<br>
We could most probably customize the platform to behave like the
list for people who want the list-like behavior (send email with
every post, or send a digest every x hours/days, and ability to
reply by email, and whatever Rich or whomever wants for managing
it, etc.), and people would also be able to interact with it on
the website or via mobile app. It could be available just to the
three counties of the valley or wherever, could be private
(invisible to other members), by approval, or public. It's
possible to have threaded conversations, so maybe we could have it
automate that the subject line becomes a thread, and allow people
to unsubscribe from threads (if you decide you aren't interested,
email back with "stop" or something). <br>
<br>
I'm happy to work with Rich and the group to see if we can create
something that works well for people.<br>
<br>
Groups and individuals will also be able to video chat, and
there's a whole lot more to it. The idea is to support and enhance
local community, especially the arts and creatives. I'll be
posting about it hopefully within a week or two, if the gods of
technology play nice.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Sam<br>
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<strong>Itabix, Inc</strong><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/10/2020 8:35 AM, Silvana Gravini
via Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi Rich and List-mates:
I support both Marcia and Jeremy’s points…
Email works great.
Grateful to Rich for keeping HT alive all this time too!
Silvana
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Jun 9, 2020, at 7:05 PM, Jeremy Dunn via Hidden-discuss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net"><hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net></a> wrote:
2nd Marcia's points:
* email works great for me
* I no longer use FB and have no desire to start again. If HT moves to FB,
I lose
* I agree the current list is very effective...so...
* what is the presenting problem? Why ask the question?
Had ***NO*** idea there were > 2300 members. Mostly lurking - but they can
unsub whenever they want. I'm one of the digest members and find it suits
me just fine.
Best to all.
And thanks Rich for your long long long-time service running the list !
Jeremy
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:09:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: Marcia Yudkin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com"><yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com></a>
To: HT-discuss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net"><hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net></a>
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Social Media for HT
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To me, the test of how well an exchange medium is working is not the number
of members, the rate of joinings or the number of dropouts - or even the
rate of participation - but rather how useful the medium is for those who
are on it who urgently or desperately need an answer.? And I would say that
by that criterion, the current setup is very useful.
We rarely see a question that goes out that gets no answers or no useful
discussion.
What is the reason for wanting to switch - other than email lists being an
old technology???
Marcia Yudkin
Goshen
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