[fl0ki]

I like this, but it makes me sad: there would be no point to this if RSS was still widely supported by both the publications and clients. You could subscribe to the ones you want and read them with the local formatting you want. That was the case ~two decades ago and we've fallen far.

Sure, RSS readers do still exist, but they are anything other than brutalist. Janky UI/UX combined with rent-seeking subscription models, ultimately doing little or nothing that your native client couldn't have done.

Don't get me started on the fact that apps like Feedly are now trying to add AI/ML to the mix, entirely missing the point that if I'm using an RSS reader it's because I want to be the one to choose what I read and how.

Then even if all of that wasn't an issue, most publications wouldn't want to make it any easier to avoid their advertising and tracking interactions.