Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks

Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by cowuser666 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:50PM (#34097701)

I hate newsletters. I don't want them in my inbox. I want them in my RSS feed where they belong. Thankfully substack has feeds.

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by philip1209 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:52PM (#34097743)

A good platform should support both email and RSS, and give users the choice.

(Postcard, which I discuss in the submitted post, does support both.)

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by jacobobryant on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:57PM (#34097812)

Yep! You can think of email as a version of RSS that regular people actually know how to use ;)

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by nextweek2 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:23PM (#34098924)

Except email for news is a waste of resources, it is a push which fills bandwidth and inboxes regardless of if the bytes are read.

RSS is pull, it only fetches the data if it’s needed.

And rarely do I see people using an inbox correctly, they’ll have 1000+ unread messages and have missed something important.

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by _Microft on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:17PM (#34098822)

Maybe that’s opening up a new space for you then: did you know that you can access a Mastodon user’s feed via RSS by appending „.rss“ to the address of their profile?

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by Ferret7446 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:25PM (#34098940)

If you set up an email filter, then it just becomes a push style RSS subscription.

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Re:Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social ne... by soheilpro on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:20PM (#34100817)

https://kill-the-newsletter.com turns email newsletters into RSS feeds.

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