BillyThe first few times I heard about #rss2email I dismissed it almost immediately but the more I think about it, the more I think it makes sense. Both #email reading apps and #RSS feed reading apps display lists of HTML-based content, allow you to mark items as read/unread, star, search, filter, share, etc. I can't decide yet if it's trying to shoehorn two unrelated technologies into the same bucket or a happy accident that basically renders RSS feed reading apps obsolete for me 🤔
Sometimes I wonder if Apple's old "there's an app for that" commercials have caused us to shift our attention a bit too far towards apps and maybe we don't need an app for everything. Maybe just a text editor and an email client and a handful of general-purpose apps would solve the vast majority of the problems that apps aim to solve with much less duplication of effort (and fewer subscriptions to manage). Kind of a weird stance to take given I'm an Android developer by trade
I think the counterargument here would be that "normies" prefer single-purpose apps because they're easier to use and understand. Leveraging an email client to read news/blog articles is definitely not intuitive or easy