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.
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/
It has a bunch of extra bells and whistles as well, like automatic summarization.
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.
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
Lire on iOS will spider the source and pull the content locally, 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.
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)
