The question is also meant somewhat ironically, i think everyone who uses rss knows that it is not dead.
But i still find it interesting to understand how people use rss and why they stopped.
Feeder did something similar, but stopped and I wanted to continue it.
https://feeder.co/blog/484-state-of-rss-survey-the-results
I also think that it would be wrong to not disclaim that I develop my own reader, but I am sorry that it looks like an ad, I will reduce this.
This sounds like the dislike is just a "do not show me more of this" for the algorithm. I think this is a great idea, even Instagram and Tiktok have this.
But I would say Free software also has not lost. It also has the advantage that it will get better with time and a lot of commercial software gets worse throug enshittification. We also saw this with blender, I think free software will win eventually
https://ivyreader.com
I am working on my RSS Reader/Podcast player. I am currently searching and patching all the little bugs, fixing the ui and creating the landingpage.
I do not think RSS can replace social media, but we need more blogs where people just "reblog" thinks they liked, it would really help with discovering new feeds.
My RSS reader is the main way i connect to the internet, most things in my reader are web links. I think a web RSS reader is a good, I can just open the links in the same app.
I am thiking of adding an algorithm to my reader, but I am still not sure how. For collaborative filtering you need a lot of user to have enough data on small niche blogs.
I also think that it would be wrong to not disclaim that I develop my own reader, but I am sorry that it looks like an ad, I will reduce this.