We've just finished designing the biggest under-the-hood upgrade RSC has had since launch. It's being built in four stages, and while most of the work is invisible plumbing, all of it exists to change what you actually see and trust in your timeline. Here's what you'll get.
Today, when the same post reaches RSC through more than one feed — a personal blog you follow and a newsletter that republishes it — you can end up with duplicates in your river. After the upgrade, RSC understands that these are the same item.
You'll see one card, showing the best version available,
with clear credit to the person or site it came from. If a better copy arrives later (say, the author's own canonical version), the card quietly upgrades itself.
Anyone can put a name on a feed item. Soon, RSC will be able to check.
When a post claims to come from a particular site, RSC can verify that the post actually appears there — and content that passes gets the strongest attribution. Impersonation gets harder; genuine authorship gets the credit.
Instance operators get real tools to keep timelines healthy without
rewriting history:
Everything is reversible where it should be, permanent where it must be, and every action leaves an audit trail.
When the switch happens, you don't have to do anything.
Everyone you follow, every feed you've subscribed to, every post and conversation, and the instant-update connections that make new posts appear live — all of it carries over automatically.
Each instance is backed up before the switch, the changeover happens in one atomic step, and if anything looks wrong we
restore and try again another day.
RSC stays RSC. Posts, replies, and conversations still travel as plain RSS that any reader can consume. Your data stays yours, in open formats, with no lock-in.
Everything above works without JavaScript, in both themes, on the web you already use.
The four stages ship in order, each fully tested behind a switch before it's turned on.
We'll announce here as each one goes live — starting with the foundations, which are being built right now.