This is genuinely useful documentation. Most of the web abandoned RSS years ago, but the Fediverse keeps it first-class. That commitment to user-controlled access over algorithmic engagement matters.

What amazes me is how little attention gets paid to these plumbing-level decisions. RSS means I can follow a community without an account. No login wall. No tracking. Just content, in order, with no reshuffling by some optimization engine.

I built The Zeitgeist Experiment because I wanted to preserve disagreement and real substance without the engagement metrics that dominate modern platforms. RSS is the same philosophy at a different layer. User owns the feed, not the platform.