[teledyn]

I still use an rss reader, mostly for journals. As The Platforms took over, many notification services like city council, weather, road conditions, even school bus cancelations feed into these, and over time my opml file got smaller and smaller.

Having rss in emacs gnus works for me, but for wide use, it needs to be browser based, one click, you don't even need to know it is rss (but maybe a toggle for full text vs blurb) which is what I get with Flym on android. Flym can also detect if a page has the link metadata, but you have to copy paste the url into it.

RSS can be relayed into mastodon, but this requires a hosting an app, so it might as well just be an app.

For the new bloggers, it's like including semantic web structured data, it is something a writer should never need to know, at most an option button in their composing software, clicked, done!