#like after twitters implosion last year I was worried I would lose trackf of my favourite artists

[wanderingmindthoughts]

I understand that rss is not popular because it's kind of techy, requires more active curation than a normal social networking site, and the best uis for a reader that I've seen can at best be described as "clunky".

but I think that a lot of people actually want a rss reader.

"I just want a website that shows the content of the creators that I choose to follow" -> that's an rss reader

"I don't want the website to mess with my timeline. just show me all posts in chronological order" -> rss readers do that. in fact you can choose to see posts in normal chronological order, reverse chronological order, pick to see only unread posts and you can even save interesting posts to read them later

"I don't want to see posts from people I don't follow" -> as far as the reader is concerned, the only creators that exist are those you follow

"I saw a post that looked interesting but then the site updated and now I've lost it!" -> never will happen on a rss reader. it'll keep all the posts on its queue as long as it has space on it left (afterwards it will start discarding the older posts to make room for the new ones)

just give rss readers a go. they're often ugly and require you to be active about managing the creators you follow, but isn't that a good thing after all?