Into the Personal-Website-Verse
RSS has been pronounced dead over and over again, yet it is still not dead and I doubt that it ever will be. In fact, it is witnessing a little comeback from time to time. Personally, I have started to use it more regularly again and others have, too. RSS is a great way to follow the people whose posts, ideas, and opinions matter to you.
Matthias Ott • Into the Personal-Website-Verse
RSS is and always has been superior to social media. There's no scrambling to see what you might have missed. There's no hunting. It's all there ready for you to read it when at YOUR pace. (I'd add Readwise Reader to this list. It's my choice.)
RSS has only failed to be the dominate source of curation because of advertising. Companies cannot inject advertising into your RSS feed, the way they can in a social feed. Their business model fails without that. Perhaps it's time we realized that social media companies are third-party interlopers who have injected themselves into the relationship between writer and reader, in the same way scammers and get rich quick gurus into our carefully curated feeds.