RSS never died. It just stopped being marketed.
The oldest working answer to "how do I follow what I care about without an algorithm" is still running underneath the modern web, and it is quietly having a second life.
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Digital identity is now a stack of accounts you don't control
Your handle, your login, your history and your reputation each live with a different company. Portability is the missing feature, and it is a policy question as much as a technical one.
The startup ideas that survive are boring on purpose
The companies that quietly last tend to sell tools, infrastructure and reliability to people who already have a budget. There is a reason the exciting ideas rarely make it.