Zach
@zherring
Substack should let me add non-Substack RSS feeds. Reasoning: 1. I will visit the app more often. I'm already getting sucked into the posts feed when I’m idle and bored (I've already uninstalled all other socials besides Warpcast and have a 20 minutes a day budget there). Letting me add RSS blogs lets me concentrate on even more content I'm interested in under the Substack brand. 2. Will make Substack the mental default even for non-Substack blogs/newsletter. Search became Google. Blog should become Substack. 3. Ultimately a content standard means platforms will compete on convenience, experience and content clustering. You see this in short form video and Tiktok - I don't have Tiktok, but I consume a fair bit of it occasionally when I open YouTube.
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Vaxitas
@vaxitas.eth
This would actually be really cool! I'm trying to think about this a bit further since I'm making my personal site by hand and I'd like to pick your brain. I don't use Substack as often anymore, so my understanding of it might be dated. - Wouldn't this de-incentivize writers who aren't on the platform to maintain an RSS feed? One major advantage of setting up a Substack blog is that you as the writer have access to the emails of your subscribers. An RSS feed on the other hand supports anonymity. - Wouldn't Substack try to force their readers to stay on the platform? If I have a personal site, the chances that I made one because I have strong opinions on how information should be structured (i.e. layout) for a better experience is high. The reader would have the intended experience on the writer's site, but now they're restricted by Substack's layout.
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