Re-Emphasizing the Decentralized Feed

Badges, buttons, and links to RSS feeds used to be all over the web; now, they're almost like a nerd calling card - it's an indication that a website is cool with an audience reading new material on their terms. I'd like to think there's a certain confidence in a website indicating to its readers that it doesn't need a precise count of how many people visited the website, nor does it need all the tracking and surveillance nonsense that comes with that.