Many platforms have a way in which users can indicate that they would like to be notified about future content of a creator. What is the best equivalent for independent blogs?<p>I can think of four potential ways to do this, and none are without downsides:<p>- RSS or Atom: high setup cost for user due to no builtin support in browsers.<p>- Web Push notifications: at least in Firefox, push notifications only appear for a few seconds and then seem to disappear forever, making it likely that the user will miss the notification. Also requires custom software on the server-side — I'd be curious to know if there is anything ready-made for this.<p>- Mailing lists: potential concerns about spam — there is no secure way of unsubscribing.<p>- Relying on a platform, such as Twitter and Mastodon: low specificity. Potentially off-putting due to off-topic or low-effort tweets.<p>Am I missing something? This seems like an obviously desirable feature, and yet there's no obvious solution. What's your opinion on this problem?
Take your audience into account, and consider multiple options to cover most of it with least effort, eg. have rss feed and also a twitter/mastodon bot for people who don't use rss. Having rss/atom feed would also work as a primary data source, which other toos/feed can use (eg. a twitter bot).