The exodus of users away from Twitter and Reddit has led many of those information refugees to discover the joy of subscribing to feeds in a reader. RSS and Atom feeds are an enormous open decentralized network that can never be ruined under new ownership – because there’s no owner. Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz has written a 4,000-word introduction to RSS for people who are new to the world of feeds: I could not do ResearchBuzz without RSS feeds.