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What would be the benefit of this, really? Easier consumption, I suppose, but RSS is a read-only protocol, and allows no participation. Users would still depend on centralized services to publish content, and there's little to no chance that these companies would interoperate using a standard protocol.
What decentralized protocols try to solve, and what the centralized web has failed us with, is data ownership. Users should have full control over the data they produce, and free to migrate migrate it to any other node without losing access to the service they're interested in.
I think Nostr looks very promising in that sense: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Mind you, I don't think social media is worth reinventing. Connecting everyone on the planet is wrong on a societal level. But P2P services are a good fit for building smaller communities, which is a crucial missing component of the design of the WWW. I'm still hopeful that something built for the masses can take over the current mess we're in.
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ftr-site-config
Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.
RSS feeds that don't contain the full article text drive me nuts.
Here is a workaround that I've had good luck with:
https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/
In addition to improving usability, it defeats attempts to measure clickbait summary efficacy, etc., since it breaks sites' ability to pull popularity / telemetry info.
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