[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”.