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▲ moebrowne 3 hours ago

Making it too easy invites spam.

Sending a single email seems like a good compromise to me.

▲bookofjoe 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required:

>Participating

>You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes.

For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

Too bad.

A single email WOULD be great, as you point out.

▲viermalbe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sign-in is only needed to interact with the site, like voting or hiding entries. If you want to suggest your own blog, just send a mail to suggest@bubbles.town as described in the FAQ.

▲zer00eyz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.

▲bookofjoe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

viermalbe: Done! Thank you.

▲bookofjoe an hour ago | parent [-]

Here is the response from Bubbles:

From: Benjamin Behnke <ben@viermal.be> Date: June 17, 2026 at 12:32:25 PM EDT To: josephstirt@gmail.com Subject: Re: I am submitting my blog for your consideration: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for reaching out. Your post frequency is too high to be listed on Bubbles. You are publishing 3 articles per day. To quote from the criteria listed in the FAQ: Moderate pace. Not more than one or two posts per day on average. Bubbles is for writers, not content machines. I hope you'll understand. Let me know if you plan to slow down :)

Cheers, Ben