cross-post: https://lemmy.ml/post/209401
I usually use a feed reader to gather news, but some news sites use newsletters instead of distributing feeds. As a user, is there any advantage to receive news using newsletters over feeds?
cross-post: https://lemmy.ml/post/209401
I usually use a feed reader to gather news, but some news sites use newsletters instead of distributing feeds. As a user, is there any advantage to receive news using newsletters over feeds?
I run an RSS-to-email service so I wrote a comparison on our blog a while ago. It is interesting in this case because it is very 1-to-1 since it all ends up in your email.
https://blog.feedmail.org/2022/02/feedmail-vs-first-party-newsletters.html
Of course if you don’t like getting your news by email then you can add more points to the RSS column because it is more flexible for most users. Although some feed readers support generating email addresses that you can subscribe with so that you can see email newsletters alongside your feeds instead of in your email client.
At the end of the day RSS and Email are just different delivery mechanisms for the same content but differences in the mechanism cause small changes in the experience and differences between the availability of software for various use cases can also impact which delivery mechanism suits your workflow better.