This is an excellent idea. This should be taken further though to protect readers too, in the age of surveillance capitalist fascism.

… As in a universal FOSS app for “news” where you can subscribe to both orgs and journalists (replacing substack), with zero tracking and zero knowledge subscriptions/donations, allowing users to subscribe/donate without any org or gov knowing which individuals are subscribed to which services, reading what content, communicating with which journalists, etc.