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throwawsy7273on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Opera used to have a built in RSS reader that was better in my opinion.

Some of the people behind Opera has built Vivaldi, which also contains an RSS reader. I haven't used it myself, but it looks promising.

throwawsy7273on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

I have a feeling that it used to be much more valuable to send users to your site in the past, than today where a lot of traffic comes from search/ads/social media.

Perhaps it is time to revisit a distribution model, where the full content of the article is available for paid users inside the reader itself. The RSS reader would require a subscription and pay RSS feed providers a share of the subscription price. A sort of distributed spotify model.

throwawsy7273on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

I haven't used them myself, but it seems that services such as paddle.com takes care of the payment and tax compliance. There are probably similar sevices for logistics as well.