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Recently, I had to signin to #facebook to gettimely updates from my local #government and #newsmedia. What a #dumpsterfire. Do they not realize that some #information must remain in #chronological order.

It's high time that governments and news outlets stop relying on #centralized #socialmedia owned by #techbros to dissiminate info to the people. There is no reason why #public organizations cannot stand up their own #fediverse instances.

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So, the best way to reach more people on the #fediverse is to create a new post, preferably at a different time of day than the original post you're publicizing. This way people will see the link again even if they already saw the original, and it has a chance of reaching people in a different timezone.

This is why we need an #algorithmic #timeline; #chronological timelines encourage posting more low-quality content.

Do you like getting #chronological updates from your favourite #news sources/ #blogs?
*YAH*
Do you hate #algorithms that prioritize secret revenue agenda of big tech corp? Paywalls?
*UH HUH*
Did you know you can get #RSS Feeds from pretty much anywhere? #Youtube, #Reddit, #Videosift, #Medium, #WordPress, #Substack blogs?
*NOWAI!*
Yeswai - and you can read stuffs from those places w/o shit apps using regular email clients, even boring webbrowsers?
*WHOA!*
Here's how: awadwatt.com/tezoatlipoca/rss-

Third Spruce Tree On The Left · RSS Feeds: How to Read News And Stuff Without BullshitLemme skip to how to find RSS URLS for Youtube Substack and Wordpress Reddit Medium Videosift It used to be, back in the day, that when ...

I feel that the #fediverse's lack of an #algorithm is *more* toxic than #Twitter; on #mastodon's #chronological timeline I feel like I'm missing out on important signal in the noise so I have to spend more time combing through it, exploring #hashtags, #following them, #mute words, build #lists, etc. With Twitter there were ads, but also there was all the best stuff since the last time you logged in, sorted by how interesting it would be to YOU! That was awesome; I miss that!