The tracking and data mining is only one problem, another is having my data locked in a silo. What I'd like from a social network is for it to be more like an R

The tracking and data mining is only one problem, another is having my data locked in a silo. What I'd like from a social network is for it to be more like an RSS reader: my posts should be followable via RSS, and my news feed should just be an RSS reader from which I can follow others on the same network and from outside the network. That's a pretty simple way to get me interested. I also would like if messaging would be handled by something like an email address (like Facebook added and then removed once upon a time), or better yet a derivative of email that's easier to self-host and encrypted by default (maybe something like matrix.org). To me, working to break down the huge silos is the best thing a non-profit social network could bring. And, to be completely honest, I'm not sure I'd even join it, because in this system I'd be able to participate without joining the network so I could just self-host my website (and RSS feed) and use my own feed reader as I do now. EDIT to expand on this after thinking about it a bit. Since podcasting has been the most successful use case for RSS so far, perhaps a good way to go forward with the above idea would be to allow attaching arbitrary files to posts, and to embed images/audio/video (as they're be embedded on Facebook). This would make it easy to host a podcast/video feed, or image feed on the network while still being a part of the larger open podcasting/video/visual art communities, and it'd be easy to follow. This could provide a decent avenue for advertising the network to certain segments of potential users. And (as long as you embedded items with simple img/audio/video html tags) communities like the free software community and the open web community would probably be pretty ecstatic about it at the very least.