> I wonder if there's a correlation between the downturn in interest in RSS and Google Reader being closed. Google Reader was a great app, I didn't believe Goo

> I wonder if there's a correlation between the downturn in interest in RSS and Google Reader being closed. Google Reader was a great app, I didn't believe Google one second when they basically said that nobody used it anymore. RSS is still the best way for me, personally, to get my news from the internet on a whole range of subjects. I don't like Twitter or Facebook which are mostly noise and spam. With RSS I get my news right from the source, without a third party. I also use RSS in APIs I write for pub-sub endpoints. Google could have integrated RSS in Gmail for instance,the same way they integrated a chat inside the email client. They didn't because they don't believe in open tech that much anymore. It's all about messaging apps with proprietary protocols these days. Yet RSS is part of the web.