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by colesantiago 8 hours ago
So what is the solution here other than ads?

Most people who use RSS, use it because they don't want to go to a website (filled with ads) and they want content 100% for free.

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I have a feeling that it used to be much more valuable to send users to your site in the past, than today where a lot of traffic comes from search/ads/social media.

Perhaps it is time to revisit a distribution model, where the full content of the article is available for paid users inside the reader itself. The RSS reader would require a subscription and pay RSS feed providers a share of the subscription price. A sort of distributed spotify model.