The newsletter as RSS
Martin Weller,
The Ed Techie,
Feb 15, 2023
So this is a fun collection of thoughts about the revival of blogging and the question of how people are going to find them now that most of the world has forgotten RSS. Martin Weller also suggests that readers subscribe to his most recent thing: the email newsletter (he's using the WordPress newsletter plugin, though I'd half-expected Substack). "It's odd," he says, "to move from the creative possibilities of RSS to, erm, email." Not so odd as we may think: it's an expression of a desire of people to choose what they read, and read in their own way. So where will this go? Not back to RSS, necessarily, because it will be mostly superseded by some version of ActivityPub. We will choose our own readers (including our existing RSS readers), subscribe to whatever we want, and remain (mostly) unblighted by unwanted advertising, spam, or the whims of media and platform CEOs.
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