I second that excitement! When I first found RSS, it felt like rediscovering the original intent of the internet. It gives you full flexibility of your sources of information all in one place, without giving your data away to a corporate entity, or signing up for any platform for that matter.

Tbh it is such a breath of fresh air compared to the feeds and platforms we’ve become accustomed to–and RSS has been around longer than them, which is crazy to me.

I just hope websites on the internet continue to support it–as many older, not as common technologies often get phased out.

You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds anonymously through Kill the Newsletter.

I’ve been using it for over a year and it works flawlessly. Highly recommend!

I posted a similar question a few months ago if you want some more ideas :) (also looking to develop/design an open source app – hmu if you want to collab on one!)

https://lemmy.world/post/14119180

There seems like a lot of potential for an app like this with the mixture of decentralization/encryption/verification/blockchain/etc. Easily verify artists, get the artists paid with a determined currency or by merch and donations, have it federated or decentralized so artists have more control and a company can’t take percentages… I don’t know. There has to be something there. It seems possible and almost a necessity in the future for artists to make money and corporations to not enshittify each app that is released. For example, spotify adding features to try to be like TikTok, or recently they were trying to add “educational courses” to the app

Yeah…for many of these programs the onboarding is so daunting, even for those who are tech savvy. Laymen don’t stand a chance with something that is that complicated. It doesn’t often seem to be a technical issue either, more-so a user experience or design problem