WordPress is adopting ActivityPub and now enters the paid-newsletter market. Combine those with the traditional blogging package and this is getting quite interesting. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/wordpress-com-challenges-substack-with-launch-of-paid-newsletters/?guccounter=1
@dangillmor they own tumblr too
@dangillmor I hope they do a better job than Medium. They launched me.dm months ago and have no visible integration with Mastodon that I can see.
Unfortunately, it's only wordpress.com so far (for the newsletter thing). I know there are newsletter plugins for Wordpress sites, I have been thinking about turning one of my blogs into a newsletter for a while now (just haven't had the time to dig into it)
@dangillmor one of several big advantages of blogs (and related RSS feeds) is that they do not clog your inbox.
Are people going back to newsletters now? And even paying for the inconvenience?
That's quite peculiar.