RSS As Part Of Necessary Information Infrastructure?

Nowadays, RSS is considered to be something like Amiga or Commodore before it. Only old folks still know what it is: For a long time, it was the main way to regularly receive news from different sources. The author Anil Dash has tweeted an interesting read about what he thinks Google Reader is. The tool was shut down a couple of years ago, and in general this meant the end of massive use of RSS. 

But what many consider to be outdated has a different, philosophical meaning. I do agree with Anil that this access to information which is personal and not disturbed by any algorithms, is crucial for healthy media ecosystems. Both Twitter and especially Facebook play with various forms of mixing information up the way they think we want it, essentially cutting us out from the process of choosing what we think is relevant for us. 

Even if they try to "reduce information chaos", it's not as if we were unable to do this on our own. I still use the app Feedly and this is my way to stay on top of all media and interesting blogs. From social media, I usually get social things and in some cases, breaking news. But good reads come from elsewhere. Like Anil, I wonder what would happen if more people consumed news without any algorithm tampering with their newsfeed.