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Its interesting to contemplate an RSS-first browser that would have this functionality built-in. Think for example of promoting to full browser status a desktop RSS reader like Akregator [1] (which already embeds a webview).

The browser as we now know it is mostly a static application that has long lost its user-centric mission. Websites might push some stuff but the user must do thinks manually. Its primary function is to provide a search window to external search. People even stopped using bookmarks and search for everything.

This hypothetical RSS-Browser could become the main organizational tool for the users web experience, integrating the use of bookmarks.

In fact even more "feeds" could be integrated like email and activitypub or atproto posts. It boils down to the fact that each person has a number of profiles/roles and within each they have a taxonomy of interests and we need a tool that integrates static and dynamic sources of information.

[1] https://apps.kde.org/akregator/

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