@atomicpoet ftr,
and as PSA for everybody else who may find the same strategy useful in THEIR situation:
that ("bad guy can buy service") is exactly the reason why
1) after ~15 years of #blogging I had to surrender to the masses who will read email, but NEVER an RSS feed
2) but I did it as aleaving the blog active, and using #substack as a repeater for it, as I explained here:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/i-just-started-a-newsletter-and-its