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One way to reframe the question is to ask: why social media took over and what RSS can do to catch up?

I got a theory but curious about others thoughts.

My theory is barrier to entry, network density, lurker effect, UX, dopamine and attention economy loop, content recommendation etc all fell behind.

One hint is how TikTok’s old parent company started as a content aggregator and still runs one of the biggest one in china called Toutiao.

Also plug my tiny contribution to fix the inconsistent reading experience of rss ready blogs without installing an app: https://feedable.doublememory.com