[pedro1976]

I would love if people would see that their networks they maintain are of incredible value. As a consequence I would like to profit of e.g. information network a person x has. My idea is that every person exposes an aggregated RSS feed of feeds they consume. Every interesting person that tells me their secret RSS link would empower me.

I started a couple of projects in that area, one is a piece of glue code [0] to automatically get a feed of a site, even if there isn't one. It maps html to a feed structure, which works decent, fixing broken feeds after the html changes is now the main concern.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

[phailhaus]

> every person exposes an aggregated RSS feed of feeds they consume

I like this idea, and I think it is something that RSS is missing. The "bubbles" that we decry on social networks is largely caused by our inability to share feeds. Every feed is tailor made to the person seeing it, so everyone is in their own bubble by default. This is unlike Reddit, in which members of a given subreddit can see the same feed.

RSS empowers users with complete control over their own feed, but there is still no mechanism by which we can share our reality. We are still bubbled away by default, and thus will result in the same toxic bubbles as social networks.

[mycall]

Isn't the act of friending someone in effect sharing feeds?

[mch82]

This seems exactly right to me. A super simple way for self-hosted websites to exchange RSS feeds would go a long way to recreating “social media”.

[kradeelav]

Interesting thought. I'm torn because on one hand I agree with you, had incredible value of mining people's twitter likes as a way of truly sampling other people's feeds (often times find them to be better quality and more honest than retweets).

On the other hand - personally subscribe to a very, very wide variety of RSS feeds ... some heterodox enough in opinions that I would be instantly canceled / run out of other social zones. So there's a very real sense of protection in RSS feed privacy that's a huge plus there, and would never want to give up.

[eikenberry]

This idea vaguely reminds me of Napster back in the day. One of the great things about it was not getting the music you were looking for but finding that user with similar tastes and checking out what else they were sharing. I remember finding several new artists I fell in love with that way.

[Acrobatic_Road]

Does it support private websites where you have to login to see anything? Like nextdoor.com.