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Alright, here we are, in a digitalized world where site X have its own app that you should install to have good expirience using that site.
E.g. Reddit spamming annoying pop-ups if you don't have its app or account. Why should I care about their accounts or apps if all I want to read relevant information that I search or want to read?!
Well, that's quite the point of RSS/Atom. You don't need to have any accouny or vendor app to read news/posts from that site. The only problem is that site should have RSS support.
You just paste special link to RSS app and reguraly get posts from that site that you can read in RSS Reader app (the only annoying thing that site can do - is to don't provide full text of a post and just headline). That is it. No comments, no pop-ups, no JavaScript, no fancy functionality. Just simple page with text and media. And if you want to e.g. read comments, you just press a button and open this post in its original site.
Everything can be RSS: Reddit, news sites... CMS that do posts usualy already have built-in RSS support. Or at least add-on for that. And things that don't have it (twitter, telegram, instagram) can still be used as RSS feed with help of RSSHub.
But it may be not greate expirience since its community hacking a thing to work as RSS feed (e.g. if Telegram channel posts gif or video, public instance of RSSHub can't send you it in RSS, you have to press button 'open in site' to actually see video)
Any news/posts sources that you read can be in a single app, structured in folders. Without any distractions. Free. You decide what and who you read.
Another cool feature of RSS - it's that it can be used offline, just press button to download posts for offline-use.
Some RSS Readers have a filter functionality - you can don't show posts that can be an advertisement or have some specific words in it.
For example, here are RSS feeds of this blog: