https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/
RSS certainly is not dead, but it takes a long term commitment to publish regularly and have something to say.
Google traffic is nice but a lot of it is junk traffic.
I guess my point is, if you are blogging it is worth it to publish both a RSS feed and a newsletter if you have the option.
I guess it depends on whether you are looking at it from a blogger perspective or a reader perspective.
From a reader perspective, I don't actually care if the people in my RSS feed publish regularly. In fact, that is the superpower of RSS. I don't need to ever go look. Some people in my RSS feed publish annually. I'm probably in someone's RSS feed (I have zero tracking on my blog) and I last published an article on my blog in June 2024.
From a blogger perspective, the problem with RSS is that it is harder to monetize. If you are trying to make money directly off your content, you want to get people to your site or your email list.
That's the paradox. If RSS were easy to monetize, writers would be pushing everyone to their RSS feed. But if that were the case, RSS would be the same infested cesspool as the rest of the internet.