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RSS feeds are the original decentralized subscription system. No company controls them. No algorithm decides what you see. You get every post, in chronological order, forever.

When you subscribe via RSS, you own your subscriptions. You can export them, move to a different reader, or build your own. Your feed reader doesn't track you, build a profile on you, or sell your attention to advertisers. And because you never share your email address, you'll never receive spam. Unsubscribing is instant—just remove the feed from your reader. No "unsubscribe" links, no confirmation emails, no waiting 10 business days.

RSS has worked since 1999. It will work in 2099. Social networks come and go, but feeds persist. By using feeds, you're opting out of the attention economy and taking control of your information diet.

I built the feed aggregator on this site in a single day using Claude. It fetches RSS feeds from blogs I follow, stores them in a SQLite database, and displays them on my news page. The process is straightforward: fetch the XML or JSON, parse it, store and display.

You can do the same. Any LLM can help you build a feed reader in an afternoon. Your personal homepage can aggregate feeds from everyone you follow—no third-party service required.

This site uses these open source libraries to generate and consume feeds: