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I'm not convinced this is such a good thing. A big part of the appeal of sites like Reddit and even of Lemmy instances on the Fediverse is that there is too much content to go through in chronological order. I mean if you go to Reddit and sort /r/all by new, you'll never be able to keep up with the amount of posts.
But by voting, users collectively decide what posts are most important and thus you get only the very most interesting stuff at the top. Reverse-chronological order cannot do this. An RSS reader could not somehow decide what entries in my feed are more important than others.
The whole value of link aggregators like Reddit and Lemmy is that the users collectively sort and filter the stories to make the most interesting stuff get to the top. How can an RSS reader compete with that value? I don't see how it could possibly provide such an experience.