I am personally hoping that RSS begins to be widely adopted, used and consumed again. It avoids so many of the pitfalls of social media - tracking, non-privacy, algorithms/reccommended content/endless scroll. The Fediverse does address many of these things, of course, but RSS is still different, and for some things, better.

Being able to mark items as 'read' is great, and completing your unread items avoids the feeling of an endless river of content that you dip in and out of. Reading via RSS is more like subscribing to podcasts (apart from the obvious technology overlap) - you can 'pause' where you want, then pick up where you left off. You can see exactly where you are (number of unread items), linger on the things you want to read, and skip/mark as read the ones you don't. I've been reading content via RSS for around 20 years and I see no reason to stop, probably less so these days. It's a beautiful experience.

All the while being entirely open, free, standards-based, interoperable, and we had it first.

As I understand things, there is still a huge, unseen 'underbelly' of the web that uses and relies on RSS. But I would love for it to come back into the public consciousness and limelight like it was never able to achieve in the past.