Nobody needs to know what RSS client people use because it's a standard, mate. It's never been a problem in history even going back to the '90s, in the same way

Nobody needs to know what RSS client people use because it's a standard, mate. It's never been a problem in history even going back to the '90s, in the same way as `mailto:` opens an email client. You don't even need a button when RSS auto-discovery exists. RSS is quite literally as frictionless as it gets, it just works. Mastodon would be worth learning for the average Joe, in the same way that Twitter was, if their favourite celebs et al were on there generating content. The last thing the world needs is someone generating a few million emails each time they post a short status. Equally, you overestimate the importance of email to the average Joe, but considering you're on HN should tell you that you skew differently demographically than the average person. People are now only just realizing that the value of Twitter wasn't in the company behind it, nor the platform itself, it was quite literally the community and the content it generated, and making that happen again takes a very long time.