I also find myself wanting to go back to RSS for the exact same reasons of 1st paragraph. You own your content and host it. Unfortunately all the RSS readers are too raw and I think one of them has to port over Twitter features, things like: more ephemeral feed instead of an inbox, reply, quote tweet, retweet, like, follow, and new: LLM-driven customizable algorithmic feed.
Do you think you could expand on that? Like how you might imagine an ideal workflow to go? Would there be like a sea of tags that you could wade through, or just an '/all', only items you specifically subscribe to + your connections subscriptions according to some ranking algo? Items would 'fall off' or out of view(?) after X time/X amount of browsing a differently weighted topic?
I ask because being honest, you're a big inspiration for myself, and inadvertently, adding an LLM-curated RSS feed reader as a planned feature to a project I'm working on. (I saw https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n when I was getting interested in LLMs, and then got inspired by your project to start to attempt to build something like the primer from the diamond age.
Where that leads is that I see an RSS feed reader + curation via self-described or identified interests as being a 'core' piece of information gathering for the 'future' individual and have had it on the to-do list as a feature-add for my project.
> more ephemeral feed instead of an inbox
How would that work?
Let your reader only show randomly selected posts from all your feeds, for instance.