The weird thing about newsletters

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I couldn't agree more. I wish RSS would become popular (or at least more widely available) again.

I dislike newsletters, but I will happily add an interesting author's feed to my RSS aggregator.

What's your aggregator of choice? I have yet to find one that I can use regularly, not sure why...

My solution may not be for everyone, but I use tt-rss (https://tt-rss.org/) on a private webserver I run at home.

It aggregates and organizes feeds as I wish, then supplies its own RSS feeds that consist of the items it got from the other feeds. You can read the aggregated feeds using the web interface and/or using any other RSS reader software you wish.

This looks great, I'll check it out. Thanks!

I have probably tried all the open source ones, but settled for Liferea for the time being.

I guess it depends on your interests. For the stuff I am interested in, RSS is still quite widely available. In any case, I agree with the author: RSS has all the benefits; simplicity to its core, broadcast-style delivery instead of algorithmically curated feed from an AI black-box, and so on.

I agree -- RSS is still common enough to meet my needs, especially when it comes to news. But a lot of individuals don't provide feeds anymore, and I wish they would.

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