@js @ben The author should consider using an rss aggregator.
- As a user, I want to subscribe to an author.
- I visit their site and click to subscribe, entering my details.
- The site shows me a selection of other blogs or newsletters the author recommends.
- I agree to subscribe to those. (Not as a paying subscriber, but as someone who will receive new content as it is published.)
- I am instantly fully subscribed, without having to enter any further information on those third party sites.
- The authors of those sites know that they gained new subscribers that were referred from the recommending site.
Appart from the last bullet, this already exists with rss for 20 years.