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Funny timing - I just switched all my email newsletter subscriptions that I used to read on Gmail Web to Inoreader.

The reason was fairly simple - I wanted a better way to organize my newsletters and make it feel more “reading list” like than “task list” like. On email, unopened newsletters always felt like tasks.

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My simple solution is to filter them all into a "News" folder that doesn't notify. Then I can just open it whenever I have some spare time.

Agreed—I love RSS, but don’t really see “organizing newsletters” as its killer app, or experience “newsletters come via email” as a pain point. Filters seem to serve basically the same purpose.

Yeah, I see RSS and newsletters as largely equivalent technologies. The have minor technical differences but 99% of the read differences are social.

Pro Feeds:

1. Once you subscribe the publisher has no way to contact you. Email relies on the publisher being honest.

2. Provides some history (or full history with archiving/pagination atom extensions)

Pro Newsletter:

3. Push based system by default (Feeds can use WebSub but it isn't that common).

4. ~everyone already has it set up.

At the end of the day they both transmit blobs of HTML to you with some minimal metadata.

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