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If I visit a website and like it the first thing I do is look for an RSS/atom feed. I find more and more site instead want your email to send you emails that co

If I visit a website and like it the first thing I do is look for an RSS/atom feed. I find more and more site instead want your email to send you emails that could easily be done with a feed. I don't visit those again. RSS/atom give the user control instead of the platform. I doubt they would exist if social media had existed before them.

domysee 3y ago
This is so annoying, I don't want to have newsletters in my personal email. I'm happy Substack lets users choose what they want to use, newsletters or RSS feeds. Many feed readers also let users subscribe to newsletters. I'm also working on one, https://looking-glass.app/ https://looking-glass.app/ It has a bunch of extra bells and whistles as well, like automatic summarization.
- gorbachev 3y ago
  Completely agree. Like the parent poster, I never subscribe to newsletters and the sites that don't offer good ways to be updated of new content (e.g. RSS feeds) lose me as a visitor. There are, however, a few email to rss tools, a quick search brings this one as the top reasult: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter Might be a good workaround in case the content on the site is worth it.
kevincox 3y ago
It's funny because I actually get my news via an RSS-to-email service. But I still typically subscribe to things via RSS when given the choice. This is because it keeps me in control and I know I can subscribe at any time without them holding on to my contact info. (Plus the first-party emails tend to have annoying tracking links and other nonsense. Thankfully those haven't infected the feeds yet)
eviks 3y ago
The control still resides with the platform, a lot of those feeds are of the title+first sentence type, so you'd still need to visit the platform to read the content
- walterbell 3y ago
  Lire on iOS will spider the source and pull the content locally, https://lireapp.com https://lireapp.com It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    and for Android, try Handy News Reader

domysee 3y ago

This is so annoying, I don't want to have newsletters in my personal email. I'm happy Substack lets users choose what they want to use, newsletters or RSS feeds. Many feed readers also let users subscribe to newsletters. I'm also working on one, https://looking-glass.app/ https://looking-glass.app/ It has a bunch of extra bells and whistles as well, like automatic summarization.

gorbachev 3y ago
Completely agree. Like the parent poster, I never subscribe to newsletters and the sites that don't offer good ways to be updated of new content (e.g. RSS feeds) lose me as a visitor. There are, however, a few email to rss tools, a quick search brings this one as the top reasult: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter Might be a good workaround in case the content on the site is worth it.

kevincox 3y ago

It's funny because I actually get my news via an RSS-to-email service. But I still typically subscribe to things via RSS when given the choice. This is because it keeps me in control and I know I can subscribe at any time without them holding on to my contact info. (Plus the first-party emails tend to have annoying tracking links and other nonsense. Thankfully those haven't infected the feeds yet)

eviks 3y ago

The control still resides with the platform, a lot of those feeds are of the title+first sentence type, so you'd still need to visit the platform to read the content

walterbell 3y ago
Lire on iOS will spider the source and pull the content locally, https://lireapp.com https://lireapp.com It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
- crtasm 3y ago
  and for Android, try Handy News Reader