why?

Some writing wants to be a website. Some wants to be a newsletter. Some wants to be a feed.

Sourcefeed is for the third kind. RSS-only. No website, no inbox, no algorithm. Subscribers read it where they choose, in whatever reader they already trust.

The model is Craig Mod’s pop-up newsletter. Finite, intentional, with a clear end. I borrowed the shape and pointed it at RSS, the original open standard, still the calmest place on the internet to publish.

While testing this, a few friends and I made personal feeds. One of us logged movies. Another logged albums. We subscribed to each other in our readers and posted whenever we felt like it. It was different from a group chat. Slower. The slowest social media ever made, and the calmest.

I’ll use mine for a changelog. Current, my RSS app, will get a feed about what’s shipping and why.

I’m extremely curious what other people will invent.

A few starts:

A 30-day no-algorithm challenge. Daily posts for a month, no metrics, no platform watching, just a small obligation.

The Rolling Stone top 500 albums in a year. A short essay per album. Five hundred posts. A personal canon.

A family travel log sent to relatives in their RSS readers instead of group texts.

Make small finite things. Try one. The format is forgiving. You might even find that you write more.

No ads, no tracking, no funny business. Stop paying when you’re done. Export your content (a zip of markdown files, one per post) at any time.