I’m Seth Werkheiser, and I lead weekly Escape Pod video calls about leaving social media with our paid subscriber community.
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WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WEEK:
Disillusionment with mainstream social media and a strong desire to disconnect from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Owning our content and online presence by establishing personal websites as a central hub for their work.
Exploring alternatives to traditional social media to keep up with local events, including email newsletters, RSS feeds, and Discord communities.
We talked about some of Substack's recent practices, including the push for using the app, subscription issues, all leading to the discussion of data export and platform independence.
Reinforcing the value of community and content curation through personal networks, email, and RSS, moving away from algorithmic feeds.
Yes, we talked about RSS feeds a lot! Here’s some more info on RSS:
‘What’s RSS?’ and ‘In defense of RSS’ from Seth Godin
‘What the Heck is RSS?’ from Copy Blogger
I use NetNewsWire as my feed reader
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