RSS is not federated. Each server serves its own content, and clients connect directly to them.<p>It&#x27;s decentralized, not federated, just like the web.<p>I think RSS failed because of the bad user experience it provides. Unless you are following hundreds of feeders, it&#x27;s much easier to just go to their site, than to open a reader, get maybe one line without context - or some text that isn&#x27;t in the article at all, click there and go to the site.