"RSS solved too many problems to be allowed to live" https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/08/17/the-future-of-the-planet/ Fun, candid discussion of the role of RSS aggregators today.
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Kill The Newsletter: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
A cute project that gives you an email address to sign up to a newsletter, then converts any newsletters received into posts on an RSS feed.
Good article on RSS on Techcrunch: without helping users with curation, or giving publishers metrics on what is read, it will continue to be supplanted by competitors:
Only ~15% of the stories on HN are interesting to me. It's a little higher on lobste.rs and subject-specific subreddits, but still <50%.
Is it worth building an ML based RSS reader/aggregator? This seems like a classic classification problem, but I worry about filter bubbles.