Web feed without brackets

Feed readers typically just need some basic styling and typography on top of plain text. They don't need to deal with HTML, and they don't need <channel><item>, brackets, version, namespace. Just a person's name and shared thoughts. The whole XML structure is pointless for all of them, same like complex HTML is pointless for a human reading in a text editor.

How could a human leaf file looks like, that can replace all current circus in the web feeds:

Site: unstory
URL: https://unstory.eu/
About: If this is the solution, I want my problem back.
Leaf: https://unstory.eu/leaf.txt

@ 2026-06-17
Title: Web feed without brackets
URL: https://unstory.eu/xqj/
Reply-to: https://webfeeds.junk/specification
mood: rotting tomato
weather: rain

Everyone is excited to share their leaf file.
2026 the year of the *leaf file*.

## In the first week, a million people sharing their leaf file
Followed by seven biggest corporation got bankrupcy.
People write and read like crazy. Everyone left their job.

@ 2026-06-12
Title: The biggest cabbage
URL: https://unstory.eu/urd/

The biggest cabbage catpured in Slovak village
img: https://slovak.village/cabbage.jpg

If client does not understand some line, it just ignores it. No schema to validate against, no version number to check, nothing to break. You want add location or a phone number to your post, you just do it. Without asking permission from anyone.

Web demands HTML, sure. Convert markdown into HTML is relatively easy task. Simple script (Perl, Python, or even ancient AWK) is able to take this file and make from it beautiful website, separate articles, add header, style and whatever is needed. Same script, can make the feed too. Same file can be the entire source for your website. One file, no database, no folders, no corporate nonsense.

Humans don't syndicate, they share. We don't need ({[]}) in our files. We don't need XML, JSON or whatever other junk is spit at us. Machines can read plain text for as long as they exist. No escaping required, no unreadable incantation inside a file.

Plain text for humans. Even if all your software, browsers and readers fail, the file is still readable. Your grandchild can read it in 30 years in any text editor.