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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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