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> Peter, <https://www.subtome.com> AFAIK just redirects you to a
> RSS/Atom reader and such buttons exist for ages.

There's a little more to that. subtome could include h-feed parsers as
options as well.

> RSS is dying and I prefer \#IndieWeb h-feed because it's part of
> web-site instead of an invisible XML-addition. RSS is dying for an
> simple reason — it's one-directional publisher-\>subscriber
> technology. With rise of social networks with their \#P2P
> communications RSS is really "walking dead" if we talk about
> human-to-human communications. RSS still used for one-directional
> *public* updates (news, announcements, etc) distribution.

Valid reasoning, and I'm not going to deny the truth of it. However, for
me, a reacji is not interaction - which is currently rising on the silos

-   so while the option of interaction is important, the content of
    these reactions are becoming less and less relevant and significant.

> The 'Subscribe' button I miss should allow to subscribe to an private
> h-feed (like family or company feed) and allow bidirectional
> communication: I should be able to send comments to feed's owner and
> receive replies back.

I totally agree that we need a solution for the missing Follow/Subscribe
option. However, I think this is more of a missing
service/infrastructure than an actual missing \#indieweb feature.

Similarly to this, my greatest itch is content discovery[^1] as I'm
dealing with RSS & Mf2 by sending them as mail from a list of URLs as
subscribed for sites. To think of it, it may not be impossible to add a
little glue system that handles reply email for those posts sent as one
and let my site post them as actual replies...

You've just given me an idea, thank you!

[^1]: <https://petermolnar.net/how-i-misunderstood-an-aspect-of-indieweb/>