I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids’ extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don’t use it. It’s infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.
It’s ridiculous that this sort of thing isn’t a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I’ve used work well. I’ve been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.
OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you’re in and pages you’ve liked, 1/3 is the “recommended for you” random garbage, and 1/3 is ads. I’ve missed many notifications for events that interested me, they’d pop up a few days after the event actually took place.
Each state should have a website that each district can post updates to, and whatever else. It would cost next to nothing. There is no reason to use fb at all, let alone exclusively.
Yeah no kidding, we should actually start a group on here to get local governments to also post updates to the fediverse, we could even set them up with a program to do it automatically from their fb post or something. Have them post it to mastadon, but then maybe autopost from there to here? Not enough people on here but if it’s automatic it’s no effort on their part, and it would give us a lot of press, as the municipals would say on their sites they post to fb, mastadon, lemmy etc.
I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids’ extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don’t use it. It’s infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.
It’s ridiculous that this sort of thing isn’t a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I’ve used work well. I’ve been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.
OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you’re in and pages you’ve liked, 1/3 is the “recommended for you” random garbage, and 1/3 is ads. I’ve missed many notifications for events that interested me, they’d pop up a few days after the event actually took place.
Is there a reason an emailing group isn’t a good solution?
They tried that but as spam filters got more prevalent people would miss things.
Then you have the threads where some replies to all and then everyone else replies to all telling them not to reply all.
Each state should have a website that each district can post updates to, and whatever else. It would cost next to nothing. There is no reason to use fb at all, let alone exclusively.
I think it’s a great use for the fediverse. Government institutions have their own mastodon servers.
Yeah no kidding, we should actually start a group on here to get local governments to also post updates to the fediverse, we could even set them up with a program to do it automatically from their fb post or something. Have them post it to mastadon, but then maybe autopost from there to here? Not enough people on here but if it’s automatic it’s no effort on their part, and it would give us a lot of press, as the municipals would say on their sites they post to fb, mastadon, lemmy etc.