[bwilliams]

> The best part about blog feeds? It's just an idea. There's no central authority. There's no platform.

I think this is blessing _and_ a curse. I had an idea that I built a while back that centralizes RSS feeds so you get the centralized benefits of social media while authors can own and control their own content.

If anyone's curious, I built it out here: https://onread.io but I never had the time to really share it out or push it beyond the SUPER basic MVP that it currently is. I was thinking about pivoting it more into a tool that I could turn into an RSS feed for myself, but I haven't found the time, really.

Either way, I don't think RSS feeds as-is are as useful as they once were, and social media still has significant value over feeds due to conversation, sharing of content to folks with similar taste and interests, etc.

[esseph]

I'd argue RSS more relevant and mostly void of the abuse of other systems and platforms.

The social component is exactly the problem for many.