There are countless healthy and active blogs that you can read via RSS. There are great RSS reader apps.
For us technically-minded folks we need to keep being proactive about helping people read the web via RSS, improving discovery, and continually making RSS a first-class option on sites we build.
I also agree that RSS is still worth it. I am a happy subscriber to Newsblur: https://newsblur.com/
Indeed, the mess that is Twitter is giving me hope that we'll see a comeback of people self-hosting their content.
1) You can follow websites (based on blog-post titles) when there isn't a proper RSS feed.
2) You have control on how many results per feed to have listed (e.g. not having your whole feed overloaded with the posts of one source)
3) You can assign priorities to Sources and categories so that you have control what's on top of your feed.
... if someone here bothers to give it a try, I'd be happy to receive any feedback.
p.s. there's a full OPML import/export support.
It’s the opposite for me. Almost every blog exports the full text. It used to be the other way, but that was in the GReader times.
> The feed reader for people that want to be in control
I find that a questionable headline with no self-hosting option.
And it misses screenshots, I never sign up blind for anything.
However...do I get this by e-mail? In an app? Web interface? Maybe you could add some screenshots to your page :-)