Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
1. Nobody except your echo chamber cares about using a distributed or user controlled system. In fact, the vast majority of users will actively avoid such a system.2. RSS is great, we've just launched this little open source project
https://github.com/getstream/winds
But by no means does RSS replace Twitter. RSS will never become mainstream like Twitter has (to some extent)3. The author has a point about the various issues with Twitter's usability.