I wish people would return to self-hosted websites, aka blogs. The fact that everyone seems to be publishing their content in newsletters is driving me bananas. I want to stumble upon your content when I am strolling through my favorite bookmarked gardens. Not in my inbox.

— Tina Roth Eisenberg on Threads

Amen. Bonus points for websites that also provide an RSS feed.

@matthewlang I love a good newsletter. I do. But seriously, I’m getting overwhelmed right now. I want to read the work of people I admire when I am ready to search for it—not when I wake up and am also trying to sort through dozens of other work emails.

@gannonburgett RSS ftw! @matthewlang I read newsletters via my feedreader. Substack newsletters all have a feed. For the stubborn newsletters, Feedly (just an example) gives you an email address to subscribe with. A key moment in the ensh*ttification cycle is when an app removes its feeds, having piggybacked its way to success by means of… feeds. Hasn’t happened yet with Substack, but I’m not holding my breath. I think I would have been overwhelmed a long time ago if it hadn’t been for RSS. Can’t fill up my mailbox with newsletters - life’s too short.

@writingslowly This might be a hot take around these parts, but truth be told, I’m even shying away from RSS readers/feeds. I just use bookmarks for my daily blog roll and go to each site. I love feeling the personality of every blog I visit and interacting with their interface/navigation, etc. I occasionally skip a few blogs and inevitably miss writings here or there, but it’s how I fell in love with the web and it feels like I’m getting back to my roots, so to speak.

@gannonburgett How lovely.

@gannonburgett I like this approach a lot and yes, every so often I fall off the RSS wagon too and just, you know, look at websites. On reflection, that’s how I imagine people reading mine - like a magazine they randomly picked up in a cafe

@pimoore @writingslowly @gannonburgett @matthewlang I love RSS feeds, it’s how I read most of my content. It’s a good way to avoid all the website shenanigans like ads, weird formatting issues, etc.

But… what about a personal website with a tailored CSS? Those that have sections that are not in the feed, because they’re static? What about posts from the past? I enjoy exploring personal blogs this way, too.