I’ve been using Instagram as a way to stay up to date with all the local community events or small businesses doing events around me for the past couple of years.
With everything happening at Meta and TikTok, I’ve deleted and uninstalled most social media accounts and apps.
Do y’all have any suggestions for keeping up to date on local events around your neighborhoods without having to use Instagram or Facebook? Do I have to sign up for 30 email newsletters?
ive never used those services, ever. email/mailing lists have always just worked… but only for the last 25 years or so. ymmv
How about you read about it in the local newspaper?
My local paper is NOT gonna tell my when the speakeasy style bar is hosting a jazz night.
Are you sure? Normally those bars advertise events in the local newspaper, there often is a page or two dedicated to things like that at the end of the newspaper.
Buddy they don’t even put it on their website.
Is that the right way to run a business? Heck no, but it’s what’s happening and I like seeing jazz at the speakeasy style bar in a laundromat so I gotta ask someone with an Instagram account to check for me.
If you’re lucky they have an Atom or RSS feed somewehere. (Even if it just may be one from their back-end so they can show the articles on their news page). You could then put that in an RSS reader of your choice.
If you have some scripting experience you could check out Newsboat. You can use a script as source there, and that script then scrapes the their website and generates an Atom feed from raw HTML parsing.
talk to people irl
Say goodbye to your normie friends and make a new set to replace them.
