The original federated system is email and newsletters are seeing a Renaissance: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/substack-email-newsletter-journalism/

This may be a viable path for journalism (I hope!) but I am concerned about the prospects of gatekeepers (Gmail, Mailchimp, Substack) deciding what is and is not spam. If you do an email newsletter, also do RSS.

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