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I don't agree with that. The real anti-Facebook is a combination of email and well formatted RSS feeds. Email for actual legitimate notifications and mail, RSS feeds for news and news type bloggy stuff and blogs.

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From an external point of view, one doesn't see much difference between email and RSS feeds: both typically end up in your email client. The main visible difference is that with a RSS feed you can retrieve older entries when you subscribe; it's funny how people associate RSS with news when one of its key features is to let you fetch old news. TinyLetter, btw, appears to offer this feature by letting the author resend old letters to new subscribers.

An other difference is that one can reply to an email but not to a RSS feed. Reading the comments here it seems to me it is a key point relevant to TinyLetter versus Twittbook.

TinyLetter is a one-way communication channel. Like a blog with comments disabled. This is to me a major feature for two reasons that are actually one: spam. With comments gone you don't have to deal with spam, trolls, etc. The second reason is "social interaction spam": when feedback is enabled, people may think they have to reply, support, "like", "retweet" etc. Often the reply is void of content.

TinyLetter's key feature is that you are sending a "newsletter", making it clear that no feedback is required, which eliminates the social spam that pervades social networks.

Why not both? I would prefer to have my emails and feeds in one place, just no status updates.

What you need is Microsoft Outlook. Nirvana

How is RSS support in Outlook?

I didn't know it supported RSS, so I tried it. Seems nice enough: https://imgur.com/NdqMcbx

That toolbar tho. Ugh. I assumed he was talking about Outlook.com, not Outlook 2013.

Ribbon is collapsible in all Microsoft applications: Ctrl+F1 or click on the ^ in the right most part of the ribbon.

Does the search folders work for RSS feeds too?

It does. The RSS feed items are treated like emails, so you can choose a feed folder or multiple folders and set up whatever search parameters you want. I set one up to show all articles posted by "ris," and it worked as you'd expect.

What's stopping you? No reason a mail client can't do RSS as well, is there? (I'm pretty sure some do, or at least did.)

Every good mail client does RSS, including T-bird and Outlook - but they don't sync subscriptions and read/unread posts to the cloud, so most power users prefer a Google Reader clone.

Thunderbird supports RSS feed support, though they are kept separate from e-mail, somewhat.

Some do/did, indeed. I personally prefer Feedly, though.

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